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I'm okay with DoS attacks being punished as vandalism. Still, one year seems excessive.

• tptacek 17y ago
  There's "vandalism" and there's "vandalism". A year for spraypainting a wall is crazy. But what about for sneaking into a company's garage and slashing all the tires on 20 or 30 service vehicles? DoS is more like the latter than the former.
  • jrockway 17y ago
    This situation is more like convincing everyone in the neighborhood to slash one tire, and then punishing the two people that got caught for the entire group's action. One person running "while /bin/true; do wget -r scientology.com & done" is not going to do any damage. When 1000 people do it, though, it does cause damage. Should the two people that got caught be liable for the damage done by the other 998? (I say no. In many cases, the law seems to disagree.)