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In a hypothetical world where attackers would need to create a unique attack script for each system attacked – such an economy would be a non-starter.

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If all the people would be the same - pandemics such as Black Death would easily take the whole humankind down; it is diversity among humans which allowed us to survive.

Just to inform everybody who might be interested: I am going to speak at ACCU conference, which will be held on Apr 25-29, 2017 in Bristol, UK. My presentation titled “Deterministic Components for Interactive Distributed Systems: Benefits and Implementation”, is scheduled on Apr 24th, at 2pm. The presentation is going to cover determinism benefits (from production post-mortem

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Burstable packet loss. May be caused by a neighbor preparing his breakfast

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if there is a NAT device on the way from your Client to your Server – a sudden IP change can occur with absolutely no notification to Client whatsoever.

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All the routers, switches (actually – pretty much each and every device which forms Internet infrastructure) – are allowed to drop each and every packet.

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TCP, when it observes a dropped packet, interprets it as an indication of congestion – and slows down.