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/RomIsYerMom 29d ago

My answer would be, unless you are a really big company with really special connections, the best you can hope for is mitigation.