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Old Jul 28, 2018 | 3:52 pm
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Originally Posted by zitsky
How often has FT been under a DDOS attack? I cannot remember ever seeing these CloudFare messages before. Was I just not paying attention?
It happens several times a year, but I think this one is unusually long and sustained.

The people running it will give up once they figure out that FT isn't going to cave. [MENTION=804859]plunet[/MENTION] posted a better description of how these things work above.
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