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The Department of Webland Security
37 You don’t need
To know where we are (but we know
where you live)
Washington, D.C.

From: The Department of Webland Security
Secret Service - Corporate Enforcement Unit

To Whom It May Concern:
A recent investigation into an apparent Distributed Denial
of Service (DDoS) attack on the www.beans-r-us.biz domain

showed that much of the traffic originated from machines
located in various Starbuzz outlets from around the world.
The number of web transactions (which reached a peak of
several hundred thousand requests worldwide) resulted in
a crash of the Beans'R'Us servers, resulting in a
significant loss of business.
In accordance with the powers invested in this office
by the United States Attorney General, we are alerting the

developer of the very dim view we take of this kind of

thing. In short:
We're watching you, Bud. Consider yourself on notice.

Yours faithfully,

Head of Internet Affairs

That sounds weird. What happened?

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