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> It is something that anyone with technical expertise (no platform is guaranteed a right to good programmers) can accomplish.

If a DDoS attack overwhelms the network connection, there's no technical expertise that can protect against that.

> In the case of KiwiFarms, they’ve transitioned to using a modified fork of a free and open source load balancer to protect against DDoS and other bot-driven attacks.

That only shows that no one attacking them has enough resources to overwhelm their network connection.



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