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This is like a self-administered "slow lori attack" then - making it easier for an attacker to keep connections up until things start getting tight on port 443.

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I can imagine this is so easily overcome by the attacker. Why would they even need machines that take 10 seconds to return a single line over SSH?

Tarpits trap dumb animals. An intelligent attacker won't fall for it, but they aren't meant to.

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