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		TeMPOraL on Nov 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from w... I know this isn't a correct answer to the overall problem, but holy shit, just how much cloud resources could you possibly need to support a garage door opener? This feels like a "top end of the free tier of some PaaS" kind of usage. 0.2% of their userbase doing a cloud poll every 30 seconds or so is not a DDoS, it's a small caching issue.

tcbawo on Nov 8, 2023 [–]

I guess when you’re probably talking about millions of customers, it depends on what services they offer.

Although when the API is exposed to unfiltered external requests, I think the answer is no amount of cloud services is enough.

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