More generally: I think a decent fraction of the people who think DDoSing is an appropriate way to deal with personal vendettas are kids. The targets of kids'

More generally: I think a decent fraction of the people who think DDoSing is an appropriate way to deal with personal vendettas are kids. The targets of kids' vendettas are often also kids. Kids tend to have low budgets. (The budget required to launch a DDoS, through one of the many commercial websites that sell them, is pretty low.)