Thanks! That does seem at least pretty close. Wiki says:
Salami slicing tactics, also known as salami slicing, salami tactics, the salami-slice strategy, or salami attacks,[1] is the practice of using a series of many small actions to produce a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once.
This is a pretty close match. But then, both the metaphor and many of the examples seem specifically about cutting up a big thing into little things—slicing the salami, slicing a big pile of money, slicing some territory. Some other examples have a frogboiling flavor: using acclimation to gradually advance (the kid getting into the water, China increasing presence in the sea), violating a boundary. (The science publishing examples seems like milking, not salami slicing / sum-threshold.) A “pure” sum-threshold attack doesn’t have to look like either of those. E.g. a DDoS attack has the anastomosis structure without having a concrete thing that’s being cut up and taken or a slipperly slope that’s being pushed along; peer pressure often involves slippery slopes / frogboiling, but can also be “pure” in this sense, if it’s a binary decision that’s being pressured.
It seems pretty natural to me to think of a DDoS as being a DoS (with only one “D”) that has been salami-sliced up into many pieces.
One could argue that a DoS is only an abstraction and not “concrete”, but one could make a similar argument about money or alliances, which Wikipedia presents as the canonical examples of salami slicing.
Additional relevant terms are sorites, “indifference of the indicator”, and “all stable processes we shall predict, all unstable processes we shall control”.
I believe the preexisting name is “salami slicing”
Thanks! That does seem at least pretty close. Wiki says:
This is a pretty close match. But then, both the metaphor and many of the examples seem specifically about cutting up a big thing into little things—slicing the salami, slicing a big pile of money, slicing some territory. Some other examples have a frogboiling flavor: using acclimation to gradually advance (the kid getting into the water, China increasing presence in the sea), violating a boundary. (The science publishing examples seems like milking, not salami slicing / sum-threshold.) A “pure” sum-threshold attack doesn’t have to look like either of those. E.g. a DDoS attack has the anastomosis structure without having a concrete thing that’s being cut up and taken or a slipperly slope that’s being pushed along; peer pressure often involves slippery slopes / frogboiling, but can also be “pure” in this sense, if it’s a binary decision that’s being pressured.
It seems pretty natural to me to think of a DDoS as being a DoS (with only one “D”) that has been salami-sliced up into many pieces.
One could argue that a DoS is only an abstraction and not “concrete”, but one could make a similar argument about money or alliances, which Wikipedia presents as the canonical examples of salami slicing.
Additional relevant terms are sorites, “indifference of the indicator”, and “all stable processes we shall predict, all unstable processes we shall control”.