[HN Gopher] The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built...
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       The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing
       Monster
        
       Author : uberm
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2023-11-17 20:16 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.wired.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wired.com)
        
       | Pixie_Dust wrote:
       | Building a DDOS botnet out of vulnerable IoT devices, hardly a
       | Web-Killing Monster.
        
         | FearlessNebula wrote:
         | 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.
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         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS_attacks_on_Dyn
        
           | WJW wrote:
           | I don't think you can really say you've "killed" something if
           | it comes back within hours.
        
             | 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
             | Thanks for fixing the problem; I was sick of it too.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | If someone can find an accurate, neutral, and representative
         | phrase from the article body, we can put that in the title
         | instead.
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20231117201820/https://www.wired...
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       | https://archive.ph/Xm45I
        
       | romafirst3 wrote:
       | Wired is really quite terrible.
        
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