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Comment by martin-t

14 hours ago

Why would an attacker move on if it can maintain a successful DoS attack forever?

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xmcp123  14 hours ago

Because botnets are mostly there to make money nowadays. Or owned by state actors.

Either way, it’s opportunity cost.

flipped  9 hours ago

The mentioned botnet didn't intentionally take down I2P. It's run by bunch of kids who don't know what they're doing.

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