Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?
> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.
> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.
> Tracing …
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
Seems like they forgot to put some services behind Cloudflare. CTO should be fired then. Oh, wait.
Not my area of engineering, so forgive me, but: is an external DDOS a plausible threat for competently engineered public service in 2025? I kind of got the impression those were solved problems in practice?