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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world's-worst DDoS

Alan Brown Silver badge

Re: Big pipes are the only protection

"Nice to see Google take up the challenge."

Google are connected enough to be able to work out who's behind the attacks.

This is the only long-term solution.

The (totally non-ironic, honestly) part of this story is that the vast majority of the traffic is coming out of IoT "security" devices such as cameras. I'm surprised that El Reg didn't pick up on this part.

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