Uncap Your Modem, Get Visit From the FBI

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday November 3, 2002 @05:02AM from the important-work-these-folks-do dept.

FlightSimGuy writes "The Blade wrote this article about how seven men were arrested by FBI agents with guns drawn and indicted by a local grand jury for allegedly "reconfiguring computer systems to access excessive amounts of bandwidth". Apparently the provider, Buckeye Cable Systems, wanted to make an example out of the men. According to the company's attourney, "Cyber crime is potentially very damaging to society. We are taking a firm position on that type of criminal activity. We hope these cases will have a deterrent value...""

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Re:value by Matthew+Luckie · 2002-11-03 08:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

if i was to get a crayon, close my eyes and scribble randomly on a piece of paper like a two year old learning to draw, i would have put more thought into design than went into the linux IP stack.