Worthersee asked:

Do you think incremental delay would help Yahoo?

I think the Russians (or any attackers) would just distribute the task over more nodes. If the slope of increasing delay were steep enough it might force them to be even more aggressive about "recruiting" zombies for their botnet.

If you tried to increment a global (site-wide) delay variable, then you would be exposing yourself to a denial of service attack.

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