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We had no illusion that we could catch everything, especially if they were using proper encryption. If you can break modern encryption quickly enough to do it at 400 files per second then there are way more profitable things to do with that ability than running a file transfer service.

But even so there were several alerts per week. For comparison, we were doing around 40 million transfers per month at the time, so ~10 million per week.




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