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CEO Indicted for DDOSing Competitors
ruland writes "It turns out there was a reason the hosting company CIT/Foonet was raided in February. SecurityFocus.com reports that the CEO of a web-based satellite T.V. retailer has been indicted for allegedly paying Foonet's administrator to arrange denial of service attacks against his competitors, causing outages as long as two weeks at a time, and $2 million in losses. Now he's skipped out on $750,000 bail, while the five packet monkeys who worked for him are left facing felony charges of their own."
Here's to hoping the term "packet monkeys" enters the lexicon as soon as possible. For some reason that made me laugh, imagining a NOC full of monkeys flinging poo at one another.
Actually, I guess that pretty much describes most NOCs nowadays...
El riesgo vive siempre!
Dalnet's a Satellite TV retailer? Who knew?
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
At least the CEO had the class to not outsource the packet monkey work to Russia or India. ;)
Everyone knows the perfect crime when it comes to DDoS is to post your opponent's URL on slashdot...
"cut throat copetition" is certainly a new thing alright :-|
This is me. Don't like it? That's unlucky.
oh I see he skipped bail and they pinned it on his underlings, thats about par.
Yeah, but they were all innocent!
The CEO just had hotel reservations, and if he didn't go to Morocco, he'd lose his deposit (the bastards make you leave a credit card number you know).
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
Get revenge too.. When your boss asks you to DDoS a website, make sure you post his website on /. ;)
I wonder if these admins need to join DARE. DDOS Abuse Resistance Education
- I got my free iPod and a free Nintendo DS....why not
Follow orders or not... you're screwed either way. ;)
Or, report him to the police. Get him arrested. Then take control of the company for yourself. It's all about turning a positive into a negative
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
I'm very serious about this. Emp almost packeted my company out of existance.
And now he's trying to mod your comment out of existence!
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in order to determine when they have either produced the entire works of William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the organizations that interact with them.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt/
"What the hell is an aluminum falcon?"
because frankly, I know how much of a pain in the ass it is to get DDoSed
Sounds like some packet monkeys are going to experience a wholly different, significantly more painful and shameful pain in the ass in prison.
Should they call it 'packeteering'?
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Packet me in the ass?
I HAVE mod points. God I'm a fricking idiot. Gotta get more sweet sweet caffiene.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
I checked their "News" section: still no "Deadbeat thug CEO jumps bail, flees country" headline. Looks like their webmasters are slacking.
I actually was expecting to see some sort of "new interim CEO" announcement, but couldn't find anything like that either.
Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'
How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
...he's a CEO that knows *something* about technology. That's an improvement.
LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
Well it the company goes out of business, Hire a New CEO to handle the paperwork and stuff and start your own business and keep all the customers from the old one, just do it quitly and keep the same name.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.