[cheepin]

DDOS usually occurs via a botnet of infected networked devices. Thus, the attacker is getting their resources for "free" since their host is unknowingly wasting CPU and bandwidth during the attack, while the defender is paying for theirs.

[losteverything]

Thanks

Is this analogy accurate?

I have one road to get home. It got blocked so I create 2 more roads.

I now have 3 Roads to get home. All 3 become blocked. So now I have to make another road.

More roads is redundancy and requires capital.

The roads become unblocked but I now must expect future road blocks.

[kpil]

Until Google starts serving pages from our phones...