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The booters are also used, but far less often, for extortion, to disrupt school websites on the eve of a test, or just because someone doesn&rsquo;t like you. This talk presents some of our (published) research into who runs booters and why. It then discusses the FBI intervention last December when 15 booter domain names were seized and discusses what we have seen since both in terms of the number of DDoS attacks per day and how the whole activity is now being viewed by those who are involved.<\/p><p><strong>Dr. Richard Clayton<\/strong> is the Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, based in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. He is a software developer by trade &#8211; his software house produced operating systems and word processors used by millions in the 1980s. In 2000 Richard returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD and he has stayed on as an academic because \u00ab\u00a0it is more fun than working\u00a0\u00bb. 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