It's the language of "traffic amplification" as a network attack (1) as used in a DDOS. it's perhaps more relevant when comparing the total bytes in a number of

It's the language of "traffic amplification" as a network attack (1) as used in a DDOS. it's perhaps more relevant when comparing the total bytes in a number of IP Packets of various sizes. I'm not saying that this is the optimal framing, but that's what they were going for: talking about this, correctly or not, as a de facto DDOS. 1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/23/anatomy-of-ddos-amplification-attacks/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/05/23/ana...