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> Create fake big css files (10MB etc). And repeatedly download that from the adversary's website. This should cost them too much money on proxies.

Doesn't that also cost you an equal amount? You'll be serving them an equal amount that they proxy to the end user.

It's not even necessarily a cost for them; you're assuming that the host is owned and paid for by the abuser. If it's simply been hijacked (quite possible), you're just racking up costs for another victim.



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