Briefly describe protocol abuse.
What will be an ideal response?
No matter how hard the Internet's designers try, it seems there is always a way to take advantage of a protocol by using it in ways it was never meant to be used. Anytime you do things with a protocol that it wasn't meant to do and that abuse ends up creating a threat, this is protocol abuse. A classic example involves the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
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