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		koolba on March 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: February 28th DDoS Incident Report What’s the point of a DDoS on GitHub anyway? Extortion or pure malice? I don’t see them paying a ransom to stop it so why bother?

shuntress on March 1, 2018 | [–]

As another comment points out: If you are trying to sell your DDoS services "Hey watch me bring down github" is a pretty powerful sales tool.

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