A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
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Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#2My hat tip to you. Nice find!
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#3Fascinating!
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#4Reminds me of the kind of article I used to read in 2600. Nice post!
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#5I wonder how much visibility on HN it requires for the switch from "not a bug" to "definitely, for sure a bug" to happen?
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#6I'd say if Google can send this much traffic automated it is most certainly a bug. They should engineer some sort of upper limit to the amount of traffic sent to a single ip so as not to perform denial of service attacks on it.
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#7Even kiddies like me can DDoS now... Where shall I begin... ;)
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#8That's pretty clever, good find! I wonder if you can do the same stuff in Office 365, etc.?
Re: A method to use Google for DDoS. Bug or Not?
#9Nice catch!
I don't think removing the parameters would be ideal, though, since some sites might legitimately serve up different images based on different parameters.
Just limiting the amount of traffic to a single server, or outbound from a single spreadsheet, seems like a good solution, though.
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