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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by delinka on Monday May 23, 2011 @05:51AM (#2575457)
I often get questions like this from non-tech folk. "Why would someone hack my computer? Why would they attack my little web site?"

And often it's simply "because they can."

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Re:Heroku encourages use of www. prefix for domains after DDoS by JakeSc on Monday May 23, 2011 @01:04PM (#2576635)
Increasingly, however, the answer has had more to do with economics, rather than bragging rights.
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