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That's not true at all, what the hell? Realize you're talking to folks who do this kind of stuff for a living, rather than just the random Internet denizens of

That's not true at all, what the hell? Realize you're talking to folks who do this kind of stuff for a living, rather than just the random Internet denizens of most other websites. The FBI will regularly inform and assist companies who've been breached, for example. The US government is very interested in protecting US companies. That said, they don't quite have any guidance from congress on how to do that, so right now the assistance is limited. It is most certainly there, however, and your tinfoil-hat nonsense doesn't really fly.

srj 12y ago
When I was an admin of an IRC network we regularly reported large scale DDoS attacks to an FBI agent assigned to us. He didn't care. Some of those attacks took the network down for a while and resulted in many users moving to other networks. In at least two cases we even figured out the identity, address, and phone numbers of the people doing it and there was no movement on it. Then one day one of the people we had the identity of boasted on how he had briefly brought down the website of one of the democratic primary candidates. We forwarded that information and our case was reassigned to another agent and the person was arrested immediately. I absolutely think it's true that the US government is only interested in protecting established and powerful figures. I suspect the reason is career driven - defending the little guys isn't glamorous and probably has no promotion impact.
- jebblue 12y ago
  How did the new agent perform for other cases? Was he/she more attentive than the first agent?
- nolanhanz 12y ago
  Its a matter of finance more than anything - if the people of the United States are paying you to protect national interests that is exactly what they should be doing. I can't speak for your specific situation but my time on the internet leads me to believe they have bigger fish to fry. Sorry though man I know that had to suck.

srj 12y ago

When I was an admin of an IRC network we regularly reported large scale DDoS attacks to an FBI agent assigned to us. He didn't care. Some of those attacks took the network down for a while and resulted in many users moving to other networks. In at least two cases we even figured out the identity, address, and phone numbers of the people doing it and there was no movement on it. Then one day one of the people we had the identity of boasted on how he had briefly brought down the website of one of the democratic primary candidates. We forwarded that information and our case was reassigned to another agent and the person was arrested immediately. I absolutely think it's true that the US government is only interested in protecting established and powerful figures. I suspect the reason is career driven - defending the little guys isn't glamorous and probably has no promotion impact.

jebblue 12y ago
How did the new agent perform for other cases? Was he/she more attentive than the first agent?
nolanhanz 12y ago
Its a matter of finance more than anything - if the people of the United States are paying you to protect national interests that is exactly what they should be doing. I can't speak for your specific situation but my time on the internet leads me to believe they have bigger fish to fry. Sorry though man I know that had to suck.