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> hit by a truly huge attack that averaged 200-400 Gbps

I take it he's talking about that[1] DDoS attack? So whoever it was launched the biggest attack in history to to get at one guy?

[1]: http://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbp...

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Note that the resources required to launch that attack were relatively small. From the cloudflare article:

it is possible that the attacker used only a single server running on a network that allowed source IP address spoofing

So perhaps one technically adept attacker, which isn't quite so surprising.

>Technically adept attacker

It was a 15 year old kid http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

That the attacker was 15 doesn't preclude them from being technically adept.

No, it's a different attack. The one on Krebs' site was about 200 gbps and lasted 10 minutes, it was done by some kid who wanted to impress a gang or something. The 400 gbps one was against an unnamed site and lasted a couple of days.

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