....despite the fact that it would only take -one- script kiddie with a modified hijacker to do a little redirecting of pre-positioned zombies.... or for that matter, one jerk at uni who just gets part of the server farm to generate rotating pings. Or drops a little package in, say, admin's windows boxes to run the ddos. They aren't hard to generate, after all, being very low tech in design and brute force in methodology....almost amateurish, these days. Or the domain of the afrementioned kiddies.... Hell, give one logical reason why they would lie about a DOS attack, when if something went fubar in their servers, for whatever reason, all they need to say is that there was a hardware failure?