If life hands you a lemon...

The whiz kid behind the Million-Dollar Homepage got hit by denial-of-service attacks from script kiddies who demanded $5,000 -- later upped to $50,000 -- so they won't "ddos (his) site ever again".

Instead of giving in, his entrepreneurial mind kicked in: he made a deal with a Web security company; his site was up again, and the Feds are now after the kiddies.

Now that's what I call ingenuity. Via Boing Boing.

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