Reporting cyber-attacks: On fat men and jellybeans (The Economist)

On a lighter note, The Economist had a humorous article on all the different ways reporters describe and try to analogize DDOS attacks. Here’s a few:

“Imagine 15 fat men trying to fit through a revolving door all at once—nothing moves.”
A traffic jam following a concert
“[T]rying to sip from the Niagra falls”.
And my favorite: “Just imagine jellybeans being thrown at you one at a time. It starts with one jellybean being thrown over and over, and then two, and then three, and so on and so on until you either have to eat all the jellybeans or you explode.”