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> Paras had started his own DDoS-mitigation service, ProTraf Solutions, and wanted Rutgers to pick ProTraf over Incapsula. And he wasn’t going to stop attacking his school until it switched.

Isn't that just a protection racket? I.e. extortion?

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Yes? Are we surprised at the boys’ lack of ethics here?

I had thought, from the way the article was phrased, that the student was in an active dialogue with his school, and this makes me think they should've just kicked him out

No worries, I was just trying to be humorous!

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