A bot net makes more since than a private pool.
The script kiddie bot netters are pretty likely to ddos, because it takes little to no hacking skills (just like bot netting.)
The "private pool" was in quotations meaning a group of hackers (or script kiddies, it's all the same from a legal standpoint) who all have a vested interest shutting down the pools temporarily i.e. because they have a large portion of the hashing power and by taking the large pools offline it's enough to be the majority hashing power.The script kiddie bot netters are pretty likely to ddos, because it takes little to no hacking skills (just like bot netting.)
I find it highly unlikely that there is one guy somewhere who has a monster LTC mining rig as well as a monstrous botnet that is so huge he is simultaneously successfully DDoS'ing the 4 largest LTC pools by himself. I am fairly certain there is at least a handful of individuals in on this, i.e. a "private pool" - please note the quotations indicating that the phrase's intent is not to be taken literally but in a subtext.
Ah, OK, I get you. Yes, this is definitely the work of a group of people.
