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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's "just" 3800 times my home capacity. Is this really that easy to build a botnet?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s terabits, not gigabits :)

Symmetrical connections are not that common so pulling this much upload from infected machines seems impressive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. In developped countries you can expect at least 400Mbps thanks to fiber connections

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Cries in Australian

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s still 2.5k fully saturated 400mbps connections. As far as I know this kind of approach wouldn’t work since you’d easily block them - you need craploads of bots all around the world for this to not be defeated by a smart firewall.