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A hypothetical response to recent DDOS attacks

Recently, millions of internet connected devices were hacked and used to launch DDOS attacks on large websites. The majority of devices were hacked because they had hardcoded default passwords. A hypothetical response to this kind of attack is to forcefully take the devices offline using the same vulnerability that allowed them to be hacked in the first place.