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They won't be snagging professionals with this, and in this specific case I think that's fine. I expect most of the people who'd fall for it are young or immat
by yelling_cat 4y ago
They won't be snagging professionals with this, and in this specific case I think that's fine.
I expect most of the people who'd fall for it are young or immature people, trying to get back at someone who beat them in a game or argued with them on social media. For whatever reason many of these folks see DDoSing, sending death threats and even swatting as "pranks" instead of crimes. A friendly reminder that doing this stuff can get them in serious trouble could nip that behavior in the bud before something tragic happens.
- vlovich123 4y agoAssuming the legal system uses it as a teaching exercise. For some reason I feel like it's going to be used to throw the book at people who would be better served by guidance / opportunities instead.
- _Wintermute 4y agoFrom what I've heard on DarkNet Diaries, the UK courts seem quite good at picking up intelligent youngsters involved in hacking and giving them a chance to move into cybersecurity.
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- g_p 4y agoThe UK has a few pretty good schemes (e.g. Cyber Prevent) that try to intervene and stop young people before they get landed with a criminal record for (lower level) cyber crime - at one point the average age at time of arrest was 17.
- mulmen 4y agoBut the same systemic weakness that enables Swatting can be exploited here. Specifically that the government assumes good faith. Instead of sending a SWAT team to your house I can sign up for a DDoS in your name.
- incone123 4y agoI'd like to think that the investigation would be more sophisticated than just see what name is on the ddos request.
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- kevviiinn 4y agoYou have far more faith in police than I do
- incone123 4y agoApart from people (hopefully) not using their real names to make the ddos request, I would guess the investigation is done by a tech department rather than non specialist officers.
- kevviiinn 4y agoYou have far more faith in police than I do We have nontechnical people making legislation about technical things, why do you think police are any different
- incone123 4y agoI don't think non technical people could pursue the investigation at all. I'm technical but not in that specialism so I'd have to do some studying just to get started. Do you really imagine a patrol cop gets given a computer and told to 'find the suspect'? The legislators have someone else write what they put their name to, so that's not comparable.
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- InCityDreams 4y ago>before something tragic happens. Gotta be USA.