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2 months agoSymmetric gigabit is great for DDoS botnet operators.
The aggregate bandwidth capacity of these networks exceeds 100 Tbps — more than most national internet backbones can absorb. And symmetric gigabit fiber rollouts keep making the math worse: average upstream bandwidth per compromised endpoint increased 75% year-over-year in North America.

Interested to understand why Lexington is bad. I’ve never seen it, but there was a recent CityNerd episode praising its urban design.