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mona_simpson | 9 years ago

Pretty intentionally misleading but handily, by posting to HN, makes sure lots of people visit and then cause a DoS. Looks like someone posted this with a nice innocent smiley face.

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mtmail|9 years ago

I don't understand your point. There was no smiley face. If the online portal vice.com cannot handle a sudden increase in pageviews it's not necessarily a denial-of-service-attack.