On: Wikileaks moves to Amazon's cloud to evade massive DDoS

[ceejayoz]

> The obvious solution for the bad guys (not gonna call them hackers, can't call them crackers can I?) is to use the cloud too.

I'd say a botnet already qualifies as "the cloud". Why pay Amazon when you can get a million desktop machines doing it for free?

[stcredzero → ceejayoz]

At college, we were already talking about "the cloud" in 1990. That's a long time before AWS was even a twinkle in anyone's eye.