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by eps 5660 days ago
Well, the big question is not if Skype went down becase lots of supernodes crashed. The question is why they crashed, and if the trigger was external. There are messages on p2p-hackers list arguing just that:

  I have evidence that suggests this is being done 
  by a ddos attack on the supernodes' object list 
  cmd parameter.