Collateral damage
Collateral damage
Posted Aug 29, 2026 14:08 UTC (Sat) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Collateral damage by snajpa
Parent article: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies
There are those of us who find the use of botnets to run DDoS attacks on public resources for the purpose of building "newly available automation tools" to be rather toxic, and that is where the problem started. Bring an end to that behavior, and there will be no need for "collateral damage".
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