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espadrine
on Sept 30, 2015
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A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks...
Why doesn't Linux do it by default, by the way? It wouldn't hurt desktop Linux either.
skarap
on Sept 30, 2015
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It does. PAM (which is a central piece of software handling authentication on Linux) makes you wait 1 second after each failed attempt.
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