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Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Softpedia: "The hacking crew [PoodleCorp] that promised to launch DDoS attacks on the Pokemon GO servers on August 1 suffered a major setback, after someone hacked their site, dumped the database, and shared it with data breach index service LeakedSource," reports Softpedia. "PoodleCorp responded to LeakedSource's announcement with what they knew best, a DDoS attack." When that happened, LeakedSource started looking at the leaked data and discovered full names for three of PoodleCorp's members, saying they intend to share it with authorities. Soon after, PoodleCorp stopped the DDoS against LeakedSource and went to annoy Blizzard gamers. "It's a terrible idea to attack a business that knows something about virtually everybody," a LeakedSource spokesperson said.
It's funny that people advocating to take down "criminals" websites and "hate speech" are never talking about political parties that are either advocating for war (republicans - that also started the last official wars) or actually engaging in murder and terrorism financing/training (democrats - see drone papers and Global Intelligence's Syria insight emails).
That's the main problem with limiting speech, the ones doing the limiting are most likely the biggest criminals, otherwise they wouldn't have the power to do it.
While Germany is a somewhat good country (I'm not aware of recent state violence against large groups - please correct me) with, as far as I know, reasonable "limited freedom of speech", let's remember what they did to Greece financially. Shouldn't the speech of "you should destroy your people's lives to pay debt" be forbidden too? That's pretty hateful and extremist to me. So if there is good limiting, when should it stop? The correct answer is "when I think so". That's another problem. For you it would be some DDoSers and some Muslin murderers (but not the moderate murderers that your country finances), for me it would be your country's main political parties.