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blibble on Aug 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: CloudFlare helps save Wikileaks' bacon

it's just the sheer amount of packets hitting our network that cause the issue, not what is inside them!

Dylan16807 on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

I don't understand. Why is it simple to filter UDP but not simple to filter based on a cookie? Is the validation cpu-expensive in bulk? Do you not have the capability to filter that way at the boundary?

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