# Strange Loop - IP Spoofing

DevFeed: [Strange Loop - IP Spoofing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/strange-loop-ip-spoofing-38954.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://idea.popcount.org/2016-09-20-strange-loop---ip-spoofing>)

Author: Marek

Published: 2016-09-19T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Marek Majkowski](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/marek-majkowski.md>)

Topics: [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>), [spoofing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/spoofing.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proxy.md>), [centralization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/centralization.md>)

Tags: [centralization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/centralization.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [ddos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddos.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [ip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ip.md>), [recording](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recording.md>), [reverse-proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reverse-proxy.md>), [ruby](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ruby.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [spoofing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/spoofing.md>), [talk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talk.md>)

## AI overview

A transcript of a Strange Loop talk explaining large-scale DDoS attacks, how IP spoofing enables serious attacks and complicates tracing, and how mitigating them contributes to internet centralization.

## Source excerpt

Strange Loop - IP Spoofing I recently gave a talk at the Strange Loop conference in St Louis. The recording and slides are available, but for easier consumption here's a transcript. Good morning! This is the DDoS talk. It's always hard to speak about DDoS. Many people mean very different things by it. Some say "DDoS" when their Ruby app can't handle more than five concurrent users. But slow Ruby servers are not the subject of this talk.