Hey guys,
So lets take off our tinfoil hats and keep the Mtgox hack as a isolated incident. If this is not an organized attempt to discredit bitcoin, what does the DDOS'ers gain by attacking pools? Whats the point?
There are people with botnets that think mining bitcoins on them is a good way to make money. The pool owners disagree with this and have been cutting them off, partly because the number of low-hashrate users is disruptive to pool operation. You figure out the rest.