The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

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    9 个月前

    A successful DDoS against Amazon Web Services.

    Much of the Internet, as we westerners know it, runs off those servers. If that could be brought down for at least 5 hours…