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packetslave on May 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The only way to get hold of a human at Google

Take a look at, for example, "Abuse at Scale" from the Gmail folks at April's RIPE conference for an idea of the threat.

https://ripe64.ripe.net/presentations/48-AbuseAtScale.pdf

1 million+ bogus authentication attempts per day, 60-100k auths per second (legit and not), etc.

joezydeco on May 24, 2012 [–]

That's definitely an eyeopener. Gracias.

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