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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

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265 points methuselah_in | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | 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. motorest ◴[26 Jun 25 03:53 UTC] No.44384044[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.

You're talking as if people can't just get another account or change ISPs.

Also, it seems you're mainly interested in gratuitously punish people who are powerless about issues instead of thinking about very basic approaches such as rate-limiting policies.