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It is only criminal if the botnets are used to steal something. DDoS-in just for fun is at most an annoyance.



Yeah, hospitals can't stand that kind of thing...


They should have better IT.

Blaming it on the people that knock them off will not make improve the situation.


So your logic is: condemning people for criminal behavior is not useful because it de-incentivizes their victims from being vigilant against that criminal behavior. Am I getting that right?


No. My logic is that when it comes to computers, it's a battle of the brains: who is smarter than the other one. And the result is usually a novel way of attacking someone, and then finding novel ways to defend and on and on. So that's why I strongly believe in hiring smarter people to defend your castle, rather than swatting people smarter than you because you're not as smart as the other side.




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