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the internet equivalent of ten thousand people crowding one doorway until nobody gets in.
means a distributed denial-of-service attack floods a server with traffic from many sources until it can't serve real users.
from grew out of simple denial-of-service pranks in the late 1990s, then went distributed once attackers realized botnets of hijacked computers could hit harder than one machine ever could.
botnet scalesome attacks use millions of hijacked devices at once
biggest recordedpeaked over 3 terabits per second in 2023
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