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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!
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...
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 /. ;)
Should they call it 'packeteering'?
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