The seedier elements of DDoS attacks showed around this time as the technique began to be used by organised criminals to blackmail and extort money from small businesses by threat of cyber-attack.

随着DDoS攻击开始被有组织犯罪以发起网络攻击为威胁成为敲诈勒索小公司钱财的手段，这个技术肮脏的一面开始闪现。

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Then they blackmail companies by threatening to conduct a DoS attack against the corporate website.

然后，他们勒索威胁，进行针对该公司的网站拒绝服务攻击的公司。

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They could attack our Allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

他们可以攻击我们的盟友或者尝试勒索我们，因而对任何一种以上情况的忽视将会造成灾难的后果。

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Mr. Bush has similarly refused to allow anybody else to determine whether and how the United States will be defended against ballistic-missile blackmail or attack.

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The massive and broad cuts to the military budget now being telegraphed will ensure that the armed forces are ever-less-capable of projecting power, leaving the nation and its allies increasingly open to blackmail, if not actual attack.

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They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.

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