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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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265 points methuselah_in | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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losthobbies ◴[24 Jun 25 13:52 UTC] No.44366283[source]▶
Dodgy IoT devices will be the end of us all.
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bearjaws ◴[24 Jun 25 14:22 UTC] No.44366592[source]▶
It's wild to think with the proliferation of 1gbps fiber internet, even a modern pi board or old desktop is a potential 1gbps bot host.
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franga2000 ◴[24 Jun 25 19:02 UTC] No.44369703[source]▶
When your IP is found to have been part of a botnet, I think ISPs should just limit you to like 20Mbps for at least a year, so you think twice about buying that 10$ wifi baby monitor next time.
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1. yupyupyups ◴[25 Jun 25 19:06 UTC] No.44380821[source]▶
Or you go after the producers and retailers of these devices. This way you wont have to harm tech-illiterate people.
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2. motorest ◴[26 Jun 25 04:02 UTC] No.44384086[source]▶
> This way you wont have to harm tech-illiterate people.

What leads you to believe this is a tech illiteracy issue? Do you believe that only consumer IoT devices are unwitting participants in DDoS attacks?