What's with this latest fetish where some wannabe author tries to make a name for himself by publishing detailed instructions for vandalism/theft or otherwise generalized mayhem? And even going to the lengths of TRYING IT OUT? How irresponsible is this?

Proud of yourself for sharing this so broadly? Made your deadline? Protesting that "anyone who wanted to launch an attack could have done the same thing?"

You could have written the same article and made the same points without the how-to and without the gratuitous vandalism (I can only hope you were lying/exaggerating about actually trying these attacks).

I have a simple recommendation to help illustrate the danger of what you've done. To all hackers out there, experienced or wannabe, why not test these techniques out on slate.com?

Not so clever now, eh?