On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 12:32:45 AM EST Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The cost for pretending to be lots of machines is also reduced a lot in > this scheme over having to connect from lots of different IP addresses. > Though at some point spoofing too many would probably be considered > a denial of service attack and might get the perpatrator in legal trouble, > which might discourage people from doing that. If such an attack wasn't > noticed because of the request volume from a small amount of IP addresses, > it might be possible to have a significant affect on the aggregate stats. > So it might be worth having some filters watching out for this kind of > attack.
I definitely don't think it's best to start considering legal action against Fedora users in a thread about invading on user privacy. This will only scare folks. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com> Splentity https://splentity.com/
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