Heh. I would like to pull up a deckchair in front of that. Don’t suppose it could ever happen.
Is the mouseover text a real quote from a genuine incident?
No, I think it’s highlighting the fact that DDoS attacks are not the sophisticated work of seasoned cybercrime overlords, but are the online equivalent of a bunch of kids ringing all the doorbells in an appartment conmplex and then laughing when everyone gets stuck in the lobby.
It’s just “jamming the switchboard” for the internet generation.
Nope. The information isn’t stored anywhere, so even if Assange was a hacker, he could only get the people that posted since he started logging.