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My guess is they tried google and facebook without any luck so they moved on. The choices made would tell me that they are younger mid-late 20s / probably not from an English speaking country. Motivation.. sense of power.


Why do you think they are not from an English speaking country? They are likely advertising their botnet (and seems to be working rather well).


I think they might think they're not English speaking because it wasn't the English wikipedia sites that went down. Then again, they may easily have tried that too but it's larger, built to handle more traffic.


Actually the English Wikipedia went down as well, at least here in Italy.




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