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		JasonADrury 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no... >The weird part to me is that some people are seemingly trying to downplay a popular website abusing visitors to DDoS someone. What's the true, practical impact being downplayed here?

mafuy 36 days ago [–]

You cannot seriously argue that performing a DDOS on a website, and causing other people to participate in it unwittingly, is a-ok.

JasonADrury 36 days ago | [–]

Where did I ever argue that?

It's obviously not "a-ok". It's just "meh", a silly childish tantrum.

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