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kclay on March 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Denial of Service Attacks

I find it odd that github can even be subjected to DOS attacks, but it seems its only HTTP traffic. I also wonder why or if it is even possible to DOS the raw tcp layer of the git protocol.

marcosdumay on March 14, 2014 [–]

You can DOS anything that has a network interface.

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