Hackers chase likes, just like us

Is the desire to wreak global havoc online, as British teenager Adam Mudd did, really so alien?When he was 16 years old, Adam Mudd, a computer science student from Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, created a piece of software that could be used to take down even the largest, most fortified websites in the world. Mudd dubbed his tool Titanium Stresser, a name that captured both its strength and its capacity to cause niggling mischief. The software was a so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)