YouTube And a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack

Likely like the iOS6 AV Foundation bug[0] back in November. It caused me quite a bit of headache, but the 6.0.1 bugfix was released quite quickly.<p>[0] <a href="http://labs.prx.org/2012/11/14/ios-6-0-devours-data-plans-causes-cdn-overages/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;labs.prx.org&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;ios-6-0-devours-data-plans-ca...</a>

Apple&#x27;s got a history of noisy services. I remember when iOS 4.0.0 was blocked from the email service I was working for and many others because it basically spammed mail servers. A lot of our customers were mad that the software update disconnected them, but Apple released 4.0.1 quickly to address this.

Aren&#x27;t timeouts (TCP and whatever) supposed to handle this without resorting to global conspiracy?

What is &quot;application level streaming&quot;?