I only tried to prevent you from underestimating them. The common habit to laugh and roast anything we can't beat won't help at all.
I don't call them "kiddies". They are my personal enemies - smart and dangerous. I respect their professionalism, which doesn't mean our roads go together.
...I remember a similar attack on Undernet a year or two ago. It was teared to shreds. But it regrouped, rewrote their IRCd and channel service, disabled /links and /stats, hid the IPs of the hub servers and allowed the users to hide their IPs as well.
The admins attempted to build a system taking into account the skill of people that might try to break it down. And, IMHO, succeeded.
