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Comment by YetAnotherNick

18 hours ago

> This attack lasted only 40 seconds

What's the point of this? Are they continuously running DDoS somewhere and 40 second is what the buyer paid for?

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ACCount37  8 hours ago

"Look at how big of a botnet we have! Imagine all of that, but on the target YOU want to go down!"

It's how you do marketing, basically.

orbital-decay  18 hours ago

It's basically an ad.

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