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no bull and the aftermath.

Right, so this was the catalyst for the development.

We had been planning and thinking about how we were going to do this for some time, but

it was a kind of backburner set of long-term ambitions.

And then, in starting in December, I think of 2013 and continuing for some of the most

frustrating months of my professional life, every few days or every few hours depending

on when the site would go down.

So the answer to the question of what happened is I still don't know.

You know, I made a decision at some point that the forensic process of figuring out what

was going on was actually much less important than figuring out how to get it under control.

And so there were two levels of attack.

One was a relatively crude set of denial of service attacks that at some point escalated

into more sophisticated and more distributed denial of service attacks.

First, they were all coming from one server or one set of servers and those were relatively

easy to block.

And then one day, I think in February of last year, all of a sudden it was coming from

everywhere.

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