Defenses Against TCP SYN Flooding Attacks (2006)

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45 pointsColinWright8 comments

Plug: here's my article about current state of affairs in Linux

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/

What motivated cloudflare to publish these blog posts? I'm not saying I don't like them I am just curious the logic to sharing this type of info and research?

I'm guessing it's some mix of subtle marketing (product and career opportunities) and a genuine interest in a healthy community of sharing useful knowledge for the benefit of everyone. Possibly also the people working on it are super proud and want to share to keep that feeling going! I know I'm bummed when I do something cool but have no audience :)

Would love to see an answer to this question!

virtue signaling. it's a recruitment tool.

Haven’t seen this before - nice writeup. Thanks

Takes me back to IRC script-kiddie scene where [other people] would use tools like smurf and pepsi to knock eachother offline in hopes of taking over a channel.

Kinda funny how all that became, like, serious with actual businesses and dollars at stake.

It was always serious.

Geopolitical and military action are at stake depending on which "channel" you're knocking people out of. Way more serious than businesses and dollars in some cases.

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