AVG's Roger Thompson thought white-hat vigilantes launched the attack to point out the dangers of botnets (because there have only been, oh, a few thousand examples of this already). He also thinks the attacker was the same one who's been pelting U.S. and South Korean government sites with malicious packets. (Damn. I knew I shouldn't have tweeted those snarky jokes about Kim Jong-Il. My bad.)

Those jokers over at eSarcasm also list . I think they may need to adjust their meds.

Here's the theory that was thrown at the wall and seems to have stuck: According to an account first published in C|NET, Facebook top security dog Mark Kelly says the entire fiasco was who goes by the handle "Cyxymu," after the Georgian city with the same vowel-challenged name.

Sophos security wonk Graham Cluely gives more heft to this idea, noting that today is , which triggered a brief and disastrous war with Russia.

The New York Times quotes Bill Woodcock of the Packet Clearing House, who says , a disputed territory between Russia and Georgia. He attributes the cause to spam, not a botnet.