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Re:China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to B... by dr_doom on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:49PM (#4846321)
I liked "He taught himself how to write code, and eventually mastered complex Internet software protocols."

Seems like a lot of the issues would of been solved by moving to AWS. At least they would of still been making money.

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Re:China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to B... by anigbrowl on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:54PM (#4846333)
Likely. I don't want to be too hard on the guy because I can recognize a bit of myself in him, but this is a great example of why you should concentrate on your core competency and pay someone else to do the stuff you're not expert at.
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Re:China Mafia-Style Hack Attack Drives California Firm to B... by ceol on Thursday November 29, 2012 @01:26AM (#4846516)
If they were able to get into Google, something tells me they would have been able to break into AWS.

Whether they would waste an AWS 0-day on some random stubborn American is another story.

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