One thing they always forget to address: was this guy a botnet owner using his zombie computer swarm or did he just download the LOIC and filled the fields as t

One thing they always forget to address: was this guy a botnet owner using his zombie computer swarm or did he just download the LOIC and filled the fields as the guide instructed? It might be a crime anyway, but calling him a "hacker" instead of saying that he downloaded a program and clicked a button make people think in very different ways.