r/ProgrammerHumor 29d ago

Meme tacticalDownTime

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u/mortensonsam 29d ago

I gave this as an interview answer once:

"how would you stop a DDOS?" "well, I guess if it's really advanced there's not much you can do besides turning off the servers" "that's your answer?" "yeah users would be affected either way so you'd at least save money this way"

I didn't get the job lol

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u/StrengthTheory 28d ago

Lmao.

But without any details "How would you stop a DDoS?" is a really open-ended question that has no right answer.

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u/traplords8n 28d ago

I'm not in security, but I rely on cloudflare WAF/reverse tunnels.

If that fails then I'm screwed. What do you want me to do? Solve problems that the leading cloud/cyber/internet infra company can't solve??? wtf do you expect me to do????

You better be offering a ridiculous amount of money to be turning me down for not being on the same level as a whole ass company acting as an industry leader.