The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers

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Nicely written and I can only hope that some young, tech savvy person reads it and realises how persistent "law enforcement" can be and how scary it is to be targeted by them.

Building a DDOS botnet out of vulnerable IoT devices, hardly a Web-Killing Monster.

Except for that time it was pointed at a major DNS provider[1] and pretty much killed a good chunk of the internet for the better part of a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_attacks_on_Dyn

I don't think you can really say you've "killed" something if it comes back within hours.

Thanks for fixing the problem; I was sick of it too.

If someone can find an accurate, neutral, and representative phrase from the article body, we can put that in the title instead.

It's a long read (and pretty good at that), and I only just now saw your remark... There is not a single phrase that really sums it up: The report covers a lot of time and many facets, making it hard to pick "that one phrase". Maybe simply pick another part of the title?

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers [...] Tell Their Story

(yes, not really neutral, but it drops the monster-bait)

That's a good idea, but I dropped the "tell their story" because I'm not sure it's in the original text—and in any case it's not needed. Thanks!

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