it's much more centralized than you're giving it credit for. the ability to focus on one site at a time is the only way they're bringing down these sites. opera

it's much more centralized than you're giving it credit for. the ability to focus on one site at a time is the only way they're bringing down these sites. operations run out of a specific irc network. the targets and times are ultimately selected by a pretty small core group of irc ops and others. the ddos tool they use is commonly used with a feature that allows those ops to choose or change targets for everyone with the feature on. so to answer you question, i'd say evidence of support for the plan on the irc network, and/or a lack of targets given for hivemind.