> I'd just assume that any service is going to get randomly DDOSed soon after launch, even without any sort of blackmail/targeted attack. Even if you can figure

> I'd just assume that any service is going to get randomly DDOSed soon after launch, even without any sort of blackmail/targeted attack. Even if you can figure out who did it, there's pretty much no chance of chasing them down. My takeaway from this wouldn't be "this shouldn't be possible" but "this has been commonplace for decades, and will keep happening, and we should prepare for the next one". I treat this as a foundational flaw in the protocols powering the internet. People shouldn't need to pay off DDoS protection companies as a standard line of business.