That's true. Although institutions deal with that kind of moral hazard in insurance all the time, so perhaps similar mechanisms could be applied here. Perhaps

That's true. Although institutions deal with that kind of moral hazard in insurance all the time, so perhaps similar mechanisms could be applied here. Perhaps sites uprated for having been DDOSed could be marked as such. We already have to make many decisions about the trustworthiness of news sources, so maybe it's just another factor. I can also see why Google would just like to make DDOSing very hard and make the whole problem go away, rather than the mechanism I'm proposing. That said, I think there's something gratifying about using an attacker's willingness and ability to commit resource to removing information as a signal about the value of that information. Judo chop!