[Bartweiss]

This is a great point, and I didn't mean to downplay it. As much as anything, I was interested because you offered a time/size progression of attacks and I saw a chance to study it against total traffic.

I've been really selective with the reporting I checked, and so most everything I've seen has been either BBC-bloodless ("these sites are inaccessible, because a DDoS attack happened"), or TheRegister-sophisticated (assumes the reader knows what DNS is). A quick look at what other people have been running explains your general sentiment. This isn't the end of the world, and running stories saying "IoT WILL KILL US ALL" isn't making anything better.

So fair enough: I think this is a serious issue, and today's events revealed that people haven't been properly prepared. But pitching it as something totally unpredictable is downright dishonest.