There have been some rumours that the hacker community would use this test as an opportunity to look for vulnerabilities, or attempt DDOS to see the affect the larger addressing (which requires slightly more processing power) would make.
On the flip side, I wonder if guys like Google relish the opportunity to be attacked while still early in the testing so they can evaluate if their servers are hardened.
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