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You seem to fundamentally misunderstand the mindset of these attackers. This can just be about a challenge or a show of capabilities on the side of the attacker.

Telling them how big and strong you are will just trigger some of them to show you just how big and strong their botnet is. And there's always someone with a big enough botnet to bring you down.

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> Telling them how big and strong you are will just trigger some of them to show you just how big and strong their botnet is.

And? Let them keep feeding more data to Cloudflare so they deflect them even easier next time around.

Maybe I do misunderstand their motivation. But you seem to think they can knock down anyone they want. To me that's observably false; even the record-setting DDoS attack through (or on?) Cloudflare that was something like 1.6Tb/s didn't seem to do much.

Let them flex. They provide us with valuable information for free. :)

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