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on Oct 20, 2012
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Who is DDOSing GitHub and why?
If nobody paid then the botnet operators wouldn't continue to try extorting.
HCIdivision17
on Oct 20, 2012
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Like spam, botnet operating costs may be so low that hardly anyone at all may need to succumb to make the operation pay off. Someone's likely to cheat and pay to make the pain go away eventually.
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