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		Dylan16807 on June 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Up... Not by all that much. If we actually want to care about botnets let's put more priority on preventing IP spoofing.

toast0 on June 26, 2020 [–]

Botnets can attack directly, and don't need to spoof IPs. A couple thousand residential computers doing TLS handshakes can ruin anyone's day just as fast as a few computers in a datacenter spoofing udp chargen requests.

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