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2.5 Admins 59: Megaphone in the Middle

2.5 Admins

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Amplification Factors That Are Unimaginable

Attackers just have to send one single, very short, forged packet. In the middle box obligingly sends a big, fat web page off to the asinoi victim. And they manage to make one packet sent from my host send the victim somewhere between 60 and 250 packets. So you can get amplification factors that were previously unimaginable. Then, the middle box shouldn't accept requests from the outside, right? They should only be filtering people coming from their inside,. Whether that's a country or a corporate network. People will just use these to attack other people, whether it's gamers taking out mine craft servers, or people taking down web sites because they don't like the idea of countries

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