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by Gilly_LDN 4272 days ago
" The number of households affected by the attack on JPMorgan [76 million households and 7 million small businesses] compares with the 145 million personal records taken earlier this year in a breach of EBay Inc. and last year’s attack on retailer Target Corp., which affected 110 million. "

Do 'responsive firewalls' exist, that would close a hacked connection just because of the size of the data that is flowing out?

[I have often thought a firewall would be a good golang project]

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Typically the perpetrators in these cases will trickle the data out over a very long period of time, thus evading many alarm triggers.
What patterns would show up?