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0 pointstholmes9y ago0 comments

One in a million happens quite often if you're processing something like ~100k requests a second.

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In fact I agreed with the parent and just posted a tongue in cheek remark.

One in a million literally means that at ~100k requests a second it will happen once every 10 seconds.

But it's extremely unlikely when you're processing 10 requests a week, such as might be the case for the web server in a consumer-grade router.

quotemstr9y ago

It's amazing how skilled blackhats are at converting "rare bug that doesn't affect the UI" into "massive DDoS cannon".

jschwartzi9y ago

And you can see how risk analyses by senior engineers with tons of embedded experience who are used to working with systems that are not networked leads to problems when their systems are later networked.

paulddraper9y ago

...by hundreds of thousands of customers.

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spdionis9y ago

In fact I agreed with the parent and just posted a tongue in cheek remark.

One in a million literally means that at ~100k requests a second it will happen once every 10 seconds.

jschwartzi9y ago

But it's extremely unlikely when you're processing 10 requests a week, such as might be the case for the web server in a consumer-grade router.

quotemstr9y ago

It's amazing how skilled blackhats are at converting "rare bug that doesn't affect the UI" into "massive DDoS cannon".

jschwartzi9y ago

paulddraper9y ago

...by hundreds of thousands of customers.

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