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by dspillett 859 days ago
> Almost every bug can be considered a security bug [...] With fairly cheap ddos services...

A DoS bug and an DDoS attack are very different things. One is a flaw that can bring a service down, the other is a brute force technique for making a service unusable. You can DDoS services without exploiting bugs.

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I am aware; my point is that "denying the service" is pretty easy even without the presence of any bugs in the service. Stealing credit cards on the other hand...