Democracy isn't separate groups of individuals having —here— total power to take a website, datacentre, even CDN offline. What's actually happened is the consumerisation of weapons of mass destruction.
Glamourising stuff like this isn't useful. Everybody involved is doing something wrong. We should be doing more at network level to remove botnets by removing (reporting then blocking) infected computers and servers. Continuing to ignore them isn't working.
Seconded. "Super-powered individuals" are the opposite of democracy, whether they are in that position because of jockeying and electioneering, or by buying malware services.
Glamourising stuff like this isn't useful. Everybody involved is doing something wrong. We should be doing more at network level to remove botnets by removing (reporting then blocking) infected computers and servers. Continuing to ignore them isn't working.