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> (as a security tester, there are lots of applications for having full control over a TPC stack, regardless of how performant it is)

And sometimes you even want your stack to be slow, eg in a slow loris attack.



Wrong. In these cases you want your stack to be as fast as possible. But you're introducing artificial delay on selected keypoints. If your attack code is slow, then you're basically attacking your self. Target is to consume (a lot if possible) more resources on the target side, than you're using on your own side.




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