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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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265 points methuselah_in | 4 comments | 20 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.653s | source
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thih9 ◴[24 Jun 25 14:30 UTC] No.44366680[source]▶
> DDoS sizes have continued a steady climb over the past three decades.

This is a bit misleading; according to Wikipedia[1], the first DDoS is said to have occurred less than three decades ago.

[1] "Panix, the third-oldest ISP in the world, was the target of what is thought to be the first DoS attack. On September 6, 1996, Panix was subject to a SYN flood attack, which brought down its services for several days while hardware vendors, notably Cisco, figured out a proper defense.", source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

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1. jedberg ◴[24 Jun 25 14:45 UTC] No.44366846[source]▶
90's, 00's, 10's. Three decades.
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3. thih9 ◴[24 Jun 25 17:01 UTC] No.44368326[source]▶
Exactly, should be less. Unless we have some data about DDoS sizes in the early 90s, before the first DDoS has occurred.
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4. jedberg ◴[24 Jun 25 17:35 UTC] No.44368656[source]▶
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't just being pedantic to be a troll, and point out that when rounding 29 to the nearest 10, you get 30.