Guy sees vuln, decides to exploit it "humorously" (as humorous as a German can get, that is, heh), and now WaPo is writing about how they're apparently not related?
Why would they be related in the first place? Am I missing something? This seems like a report on the fact that it's cloudy today, which is apparently unrelated to the stock market being down. No shit?
He even calls the obvious XSS attack a piece of 'cryptic code'. This guy is not a tech writer.
She is certainly not a tech writer. She just writes about shit that happens on the Internet. You don't have to be technical to write about culture, even if it is Internet culture.
Uh...maybe the OP isn't a tech writer, but don't Perdana's tweets, at least the one with the XSS exploit, explicitly reveal a link to the DDoS? If it forces an auto-retweet, then everyone tweeting at once would seem very much like a DDoS
This XSS is simple and it isn't like the code isn't in the tweet - all it does is expand the tweet on TweetDeck, click "Retweet", and pop an alert.
I wish writers would at least consult someone who knows how to read code before trying to speculate on stuff like this.
