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DoS attacks are illegal. If this were some kid in his basement, the FBI would have long since busted down his door and hauled him off to juvie. What's with the
by sdurkin 18y ago
DoS attacks are illegal. If this were some kid in his basement, the FBI would have long since busted down his door and hauled him off to juvie.
What's with the double standard?
- axod 18y agoIt's more complex than that. I don't know the details of this instance (Link is down), but the bittorrent protocol is pretty bad - you can just add any IPs you wish into a swarm and say they are sharing particular files. So launching DDOS attacks is pretty simple. There is also no easy way to trace back who injected those IP addresses into the system.
- staunch 18y agoTry reporting a DoS attack to the FBI or any other US law enforcement and see how far you get. They generally don't do jack, even when you hand them the entire case. The FBI will do absolutely nothing in this case with Revision3 and it's not because the perpetrator has a minuscule semblance of legitimacy. They're just not setup to handle this kind of crime.