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Surprise Surprise! The Chinese President is in the US and suddenly there are scare stories popping up everywhere.

What a coincidence that CloudFlare decide to look at months old data and publish a story making China look bad, at the exact same time the Chinese President is visiting.

Remarkable timing.

Also shame on the BBC for a headline which implies there is an attack happening right now.

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What a bunch of bullshit.

We didn't 'decide to look at months old data and publish a story'. This is one of N articles we are writing about DDoS attacks we've seen.

Also, whenever people say "X makes China look bad" where X is some sort of botnet I like to remind them that China is huge and has a quarter of Internet users and so a ton of machines. No surprise that there are a ton of machines that get used in botnets.

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