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.
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.