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To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the BackConnect kid decided to launch the DDoS:

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/marshal-webb

Edit: Maybe this helps with the downvotes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lulzsec-takes-revenge-on-alleged...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati/comments/ibwbz/fbi_hacki...

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This is totally inappropriate.

Why inappropriate?

Probably because it's accusing some random person of a crime that there is literally no reason to suspect they are responsible for.

For the same reason it would be inappropriate to blame you.

Except it's the exact accusation leveled by the linked article.

Very young person so possibly impulsive; started college at age 12 so might not have developed enough emotional intelligence to avoid doing these things.

I mean, Bloomberg is pointing fingers, I'm just trying to understand why an anti-DDoS firm would be DDoSing other firms..

EDIT: Also, "Marshal Webb, 18, whose Hamilton, Ohio home was raided this week by FBI agents as part of the LulzSec investigation". Maybe he did it or maybe not, but if he did, it wouldn't be the first time

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/internet/hackers-who-...

Per his LinkedIn[0] he started college at age 16. He's 23 now. The fact that he started college 2 years early, seven years ago, made him decide to DDoS a huge DNS provider? That's quite a leap...

[0] - https://www.linkedin.com/in/webbmt

Also either his crunchbase or his linkedin are lying, because

"After starting college at the age of 12, I..." (from his crunchbase linked above)

See my edit. You have fingers pointed at him, an unusual coincidence, and a background of being arrested by the FBI due to DDoS attacks he did when he was 16. Would you really be "surprised" if you find out he was the culprit, given these priors?

I'm not a judge nor a jury, I'm not stating he is guilty, just that that's more likely that a random guy attacking the firm

>I'm just trying to understand why an anti-DDoS firm would be DDoSing other firms

It's basic 'eliminate the competitors' behavior.

More likely to be that sergio correia guy. I heard bad things about him.

Ok, I'll take the bait:

I see a Bloomberg article attacking the company as the cause for the DDoS. I go to their Crunchbase and see that the founder is very young, entered college at age 12 (although that contradicts his linkedin), etc. and point that I wouldn't be surprised if that is the link.

Then you say that should not be enough evidence, which made me google him, and surprise, I find out he was part of LulzSec, raided by the FBI, etc. So as "inappropriate" as my prior was, it seemed to be pretty good at spotting this possibility no?

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