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If I rob someone of $10k I'm going to jail. If I use a botnet to take their site offline, resulting in a loss of revenue or donations of $10k, I should also go
by maukdaddy 16y ago
If I rob someone of $10k I'm going to jail.
If I use a botnet to take their site offline, resulting in a loss of revenue or donations of $10k, I should also go to jail.
Just because it is easy or common doesn't make it any less of a crime.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoIt's worse than that. Imagine if you robbed several thousand people's houses and stole their mp3 players. Then you started throwing the mp3 players at someone's storefront, breaking glass, breaking dishes, causing a mess, preventing patrons from entering, etc. In what crazy world would you not be harshly punished for such multiple crimes? The reality is even worse than this, as the attacker in question also stole personal financial information (CC#s, SSNs, etc.) from his botnet victims.