"This CPU spike was caused by a bad software deploy that was rolled back," adds Graham-Cumming. "Once rolled back the service returned to normal operation and all domains using Cloudflare returned to normal traffic levels."
How is this even remotely possible? How can one line of code cripple a CPU?
Yes back when Windows 3.0 existed you could freeze Windows by just going into an endless loop. But we are in 2019 now this should not be an issue!
Imagine how a hacker can, shut down your server with a simple command!
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0 u/roznak [OP] 03 Jul 2019 20:41
How is this even remotely possible? How can one line of code cripple a CPU? Yes back when Windows 3.0 existed you could freeze Windows by just going into an endless loop. But we are in 2019 now this should not be an issue!
Imagine how a hacker can, shut down your server with a simple command!
0 u/skullfuku 05 Jul 2019 11:51
Pajeets from bangalore for US$ 4.90/h cost a lot of money eventually. Don't be like Cloudflare.
0 u/HoneyTrap1488 22 Jul 2019 22:45
Very easily.
Nothing has changed since then. See: The Halting Problem.
It demonstrates some real ignorance of computer science to believe that the simple progression of time can solve unsolvable problems...
0 u/techuser 07 Jul 2019 13:50
iCloud goes down: Apple joins the Google, Facebook, Cloudflare cloud outage club
0 u/haxorjim 26 Jul 2019 15:17
Don't right code like this... (?:(?:\"|'|]|}|\|\d|(?:nan|infinity|true|false|null|undefined|symbol|math)|`|-|+)+[)];?((?:\s|-|~|!|{}||||+).(?:.=.*)))