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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."
Apparently, that CEO guy is still stupid.
First, many countries will not extradite their own citizens.
Second, according to this UN extradition page and the linked PDF morocc.pdf, there is only a treaty for narcotics crimes, terrorism, and "organized crime".
I think he's pretty safe.
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I think they've already done something similar for the Code Red attackers. And I've been surprised to see that so many off-shore ISPs are quite willing to cooperate in shutting down malicious hosts. I contacted a Chinese ISP once regarding a phishing scam hosted by one of their customers, and they had the site down in minutes. And China isn't known for being home to the most cooperative netizens.
John
Definitely stinky-cheese spammers too!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
ee Walker, known online as "Emp," "Rain," and "sorCe" respectively. Each of the three apparently had sizable "botnets" at their disposal, meaning they could each command thousands of compromised PCs to simultaneously attack a single host -- Walker alone had control of between 5,000 and 10,000 computers through a customized version of the Agobot worm, according to the FBI affidavit.
I would say that these guys had it coming.
A good friend of mine recently quit her job because she was asked to do something illegal, and when she refused, she was told that this situation would arise again, and she would have to do it. She quit, and finally, almost a year later, she's now getting unemployment for the seven months she was out of work.
Oh, and the company she worked for is now the target of a class action lawsuit for commiting the act she quit over. This, plus the results of her unemployment hearing, are making it very easy to recover her 401k money she was forced to cash out to have something to live on.
Moral of both these stories, don't do it. And if you stick to your guns and do what's right, you will be okay in the end.
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Before going to that retailer link in the article, make sure that your browser is locked up tight. They try to run an awful lot of VBscript and copy/paste to your clipboard. (Not sure what it all does, but I wouldn't trust them.)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Actually, arstechnica, among others mentions the mis-quote that you are talking about, that there was 40 terabytes available through the hub, and that the "agents were able to download 72GB of copyrighted material that included a variety of movies, music, applications, and games."
Now having terabytes available through a P2P network seems like a reasonable number, as does having only 72GB available on the few machines.
Note that they also don't make any distnction between copyrighted materiels which are distributed legally (as many indie composers, musicians, and other artists allow it) versus those materials that aren't authorized (like the cracked Doom3 versions).
Please actually check your sources, rather than just reciting the over-hyped misquotes.
frob
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