Meaning of hug of death | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extreme spike in usage of an Internet service that causes an outage of said service.
   Internet
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hug, of, death.

Examples

“But the law of trespass to chattels embeds good intuitions about balancing one person's ownership with another's casual interaction. It is fine if you pet my dog, just don't pet him so much that his hair falls off! It's fine if you link my content, just don't give my server the Internet hug of death.⁴²”

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