I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an initial down spike but realistically they’d just spin up the bots somewhere else basically immediately.
Like a lot of what a data center does is act as a glorified router. You’d need to take out a server that just so happened to host some bot code that somehow isn’t stored anywhere else for the effects to be permanent…
Or other countries actually stop taking Russian money. One of the two.
My understanding is in those cases the troll farms are routing traffic through the devices, not running bots on the device itself, but I guess I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if that could work too.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an initial down spike but realistically they’d just spin up the bots somewhere else basically immediately.
Like a lot of what a data center does is act as a glorified router. You’d need to take out a server that just so happened to host some bot code that somehow isn’t stored anywhere else for the effects to be permanent…
Or other countries actually stop taking Russian money. One of the two.
I’d imagine most bots originate from compromised Pcs and other IoT devices and the servers are just coordinators.
My understanding is in those cases the troll farms are routing traffic through the devices, not running bots on the device itself, but I guess I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if that could work too.
So, the data center attacks could slow or stop the flow of traffic, regardless of how many devices are compromised?
Regardless, Russian data centers are viable targets for Ukraine. Behind military and oil infrastructure, of course, but still viable targets.
Right, if nothing else they lost native capability, which is an important thing to have.
It’s just not a permanent fix when they can just buy server time from China or whoever.