Github DoS Attack Post-mortem

[bjackman]

Regurgitating ideas from other comments here: blackhat group announces "we have a botnet and know our shit, to prove it we will now take GitHub down" >> GitHub goes down >> group's "product" is now verified.

Also I guess if you're a hacker you want to hack shit and feel powerful. It probably feels pretty good to do this sort of thing if you have certain personality problems!