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Re: Special Counsel Office report web site


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:35:29 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Things will probably be easier this time. The Internet has evolved ways of dealing with exactly this problem. (Avi used to call it “slash-dot insurance”, but the idea is the same.) Specifically:

Yep, it will be interesting to see where the chokepoints are tommorrow.

In 1998, the bandwidth pipes never filled up. The chokepoint was in the TCP and Web stacks. Eventually the Associated Press got a copy of the Starr Report on a CD from a congressional staffer. The press intern running down the street holding a CD was faster than 1998 internet :-)

We were also lucky in 1998, no one had thought of DDOS yet.


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