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A little misleading headline, it is missing "... to attack other sites." But yeah, that's what the FBI is supposed to do, is it not? If people use a tool to co
by jagermo 10y ago
A little misleading headline, it is missing "... to attack other sites."
But yeah, that's what the FBI is supposed to do, is it not? If people use a tool to commit a crime, you arrest them.
Nobody cares if you use a service like that to test your own site.
- hawkice 10y agoA botnet isn't just a fancy name for a distributed system. You're hacking into people's computers and using them. The FBI might not prioritize more innocuous usages, but it's a crime either way.
- duskwuff 10y ago> Nobody cares if you use a service like that to test your own site. Except nobody does that. At least, nobody sane. The "tests" performed by these services are not useful for... well, actual testing. Most of them simply perform a volumetric attack against a target -- the only aspect of a site this "tests" is the capacity of its network connection, which you could find out much more easily by asking your host. The bottom line is, calling what these services do "testing" is a sham. It's an attack.