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The name Slow Loris implies the existence of a terrifying Fast Loris (lemmy.world)
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[–] Yewb@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fun fact: slow loris was also the name for a really cool type of denial of service attack that would eat up the entire connection pool for a linux web server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)