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Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 43 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"DDOS business"

...

"So what do you do for a living?"

"Oh I'm just a massive piece of shit, I own a business that ruins things for people."

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 41 points 5 months ago

"Oh you work at Microsoft!"

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually worse than crypto miners

[–] austin@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There is such a thing?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

There are people who spend a tonne of energy and materials needed and wanted across the planet to fund crime and trash all that material, just to fill their wallet

and then there's people who waste tons of other people's material and energy to selectively hurt others by participating in crime, just to fill their wallet