"[The three young men] brought down critical pieces of internet infrastructure (and even a country)... in order to knock down Minecraft servers that competed with their nascent Minecraft hosting business." https://twitter.com/DropoutSpook/status/941113106784309249 …
I thought the wired article did a fair job of painting the scenario you just described.
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Right but the boingboing one misquotes it horribly. They were running a racket to corner the DDOS market to serve anti-ddos services thru their 'protraf' llc. They weren't targeting "rivals to their nascent Minecraft hosting business" and it wasn't just minecraft games.
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Op, misunderstood, thought you meant ppls wrong interpretation was from the wired article itself. I just came from reading it and didn't understand your view.
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This is how fake news starts. First as a court case, then a well reserarched article, and it gestates a bit and becomes a virulent nugget about some hot button topic. Must. Inoculate. The. Host. http://chadorzel.steelypips.org/principles/2007/05/16/life-cycle-of-science-pr/ …
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