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		An inside look at the DDoS attacks that hit Wordpress.com last week (barry.wordpress.com)
		2 points by joetek on March 7, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

taylorbuley on March 7, 2011 [–]

Barry is Automattic's rockstar ops guy. When I see him write "a rather large Distributed Denial of Service Attack" I assume he is still being quite humble.

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