DDOS attacks are evil, I don’t care what the cause is. There’s no justification for them that will serve. Even internet savvy people tend to think of the internet as an amorphous cloud, which is great if you talking about distributed apps, but lousy as a physical description. It’s really a series of interlinked data switches, routers, fiber connections, border gateways and firewalls. Every little node and connection is a potential capacity bottleneck for user x, y, z. Some of those users are playing games, and because the DDOS attack is slowing things down, some poor kids are getting PK’ed … no big deal right? Social justice says that’s ok for a greater cause.

However, what about the hospital whose medical telemetry and diagnostic imaging gets delayed because it happens to transit the same routers and firewalls? What about the poor schlub who can’t get his house payment through on time because the node is clogged? What about the public safety info that gets slowed? Is that Ok?

I think fucking the internet for whole regions because you have a hard on against company x, y, z is tyrannical and evil. Just because you want to have a little “I’m the Tyler Durden of these innnernetz!” complex doesn’t make it ok for you to steal unrecoverable time and moments from other people’s lives.