"Intimidation" is the wrong word btw. The purpose is to keep the news from going out when it needs to.
Which it does very effectively.
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Intelligence services and hackers have any number of useful ways to intimidate a person directly. This is automated disruption.
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The beauty is that once it's on, it takes them very little to maintain - while it can annoy any number of people.