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His claim is that it's a DDOS attack. Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public
by williamsmj 2y ago
His claim is that it's a DDOS attack.
Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
- williamsmj 2y agohttps://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.
- bagels 2y agoIf you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.
- srid 2y agoThis was posted just 3 hours ago: > There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. > We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. > Tracing … https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825