Traffic Hackers with Linode

Hi Guys,

As you know traffic costs money with Linode.

What if someone decides to stole my traffic generating false requests/responses?

How to prevent that?

Thanks

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If you have your server configured to serve something publicly, it can be reached by the public. This isn't hacking you, or stealing, this is people using your public server as a public server.

@akerl:

If you have your server configured to serve something publicly, it can be reached by the public. This isn't hacking you, or stealing, this is people using your public server as a public server.
And how I may be prevented from hackers who use some special tools to generate "false" requests to stole my traffic?

There is no such thing as a "false" request. It is a request or it isn't.

Anyways, if you find someone making a bunch of unnecessary requests, you can firewall them from accessing your server.

They can't steal your traffic since they can't use it themselves.

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