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Mystery Android app takes down the National Weather Service site

I checked the NWS site and Akamai is now filtering the problem traffic. But what strikes me as odd about the whole affair is the lack of such a filter in the first place. Obviously the National Weather Service site is an important source of weather information, so you’d think that they would have anticipated something like this and acted preemptively to prevent it.

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