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whitexn--g28h
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Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and w...
A popular IPFS file might be available on thousands of nodes similar to how popular torrents have thousands of seeders. DDoS attack against thousands of servers across multiple countries and networks would be nearly impossible to perform.
viraptor
on Sept 7, 2019
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It depends on the kind of node storing the data and how many there are. It's likely easier to DDoS 100 people on DSL than a single Wikimedia endpoint.
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