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Comment by nchelluri

To what end would people do this?

> The most frequent targets have been companies from the online gaming sector, followed by educational institutions, the Akamai team said in an advisory...

Doesn't seem like you'd ever make any money doing that. I suppose one competitor could target another. Not sure if its a valuable thing to do. I just dunno what the point of DDoS is besides ransom-type stuff.

parent nchelluri 11 years ago

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