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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by jordn on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:19AM (#5575978)
What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by alienth on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:54AM (#5576090)
They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by salimmadjd on Friday April 19, 2013 @10:23AM (#5576774)
Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects
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Re:Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack by Sayter on Friday April 19, 2013 @07:24AM (#5575994)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5570670
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