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by oceanbreeze83 3271 days ago
doesn't this incur large bandwidth data charges for the defender?
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no, it's just sending a tiny zip file, decompression occurs at the other end
10 MB (the compressed GZIP given in the example) can be considerable. Even more so if you consider just how frequently bots are hitting those wp endpoints.
Non-cloud providers don't rake you over the coals for transfer.
The author's 10MB example is far from optimized. From the article:

> As 42.zip shows us it can compress a 4.5 peta byte (4.500.000 giga bytes) file down to 42 kilo bytes.