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		hannob on Oct 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botne... It absolutely is a bad thing. Unfortunately it's not illegal.

jascii on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

Would you mind explaining that opinion?

hannob on Oct 4, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, it wastes an amount of electricity of the scale of a smaller country.

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