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by Z1nfandel 3562 days ago
Don't worry about his comment. He has no idea what he is claiming. These recent attacks are labeled record breaking because they actually are. This one at 620Gbps and the recent ~1Tbps against OVH are the biggest in history, and still 5x less than what he claims.

Of course we will get there sooner than any of us in infosec want, but he is almost an order of magnitude off of what realistic threats look like.
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lightedman 3562 days ago
Almost an order of magnitude? You obviously don't know what that means. I'm at half a magnitude of order off by your supposed words (protip: An order of magnitude meas you add a zero to the end of the number you're using,) and you know not much about CDNs if you don't think that multiple terabits of traffic are flowing through Akamai every second already.

Currently, I do the physical networking builds for a mental health company. We're already deploying 100 G-bit in these offices as primary connection trunks, because a lot of these services will be done remotely over video and audio.

I could open up a 20,000 user Camfrog Video Cluster chat room and could saturate a T-bit connection link just like that the second it's half-full. Have you ever used (let alone seen)a T-bit scale program before? Camfrog's been out for over a decade.

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EricBurnett 3560 days ago
Tangent: orders of magnitude are exponential - if you want to say "half an order if magnitude" you have to do it along the exponential curve. 5x is about 0.7 orders of magnitude; half an order of magnitude is a bit over 3x.
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lightedman 3559 days ago
"Tangent: orders of magnitude are exponential"

Orders of Magnitude, n; a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (usually ten) greater or smaller than the one before."

There are very few disciplines where OOM is done by exponential form (astronomy/star magnitude being one of them.) It's almost always base-ten. When you use electrical conductivity in mineral identification, you're always multiplying a number by ten multiple times over. The effect of that? You either add or remove an equal amount of zeros to the original number being multiplied.

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