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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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Fair point. DOS is perhaps the wrong word for it. But from that quote, it sounds like it's a similar behaviour to DOS tactics which involve finding ways to transform a relatively simple request into a large amount of work (or in this case, network traffic) for the server.