today as Twitter was down.

Your computer could be one of the problems without you even realizing it given a certain scenario.

And that you don't call a podiatrist for if you are having eye trouble.

Is it not reasonable to assume this is a distributed attack that may involve many devices, be they PCs or phones, or IoT equipment?

So if one of the places you trace it to is my security camera, then what??

- You go after companies for their shitty security practice, of IOT objects, maybe the government will need to enact standards

- You trace the commend - control nodes and hope they lead you back to a real person eventually. Often you your more apt at finding were the attack originates, and what state actors if any are involved, than those specifically involved.

- But, such an attack generally leaves many traces and leads that can lead to setting traps to eventually catch the culprits. It could take years to do so. If the hack originates with a state actor, knowing who is responsible only means the cyber cold war escalates.

Ironically, just a few days ago I was reading about IoT device vulnerability for this exact kind of thing.

I'm interested in some of those devices, but I don't want to become a part of the problem.

Twitter.

SNL needs to do this!