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I can imagine cases where an attacker could have good knowledge of the reboot time of a system. For example, they could ping it for months waiting for a maintenance reboot.

Or they could flood the machine with requests, hoping to cause some monitoring system or human to reboot it.

But overall, it seems unlikely...



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