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Felony For Refreshing a Web Page?

Posted by Zonk on from the dangerous-pixelantes dept.

therandomw writes "An 18 year-old boy was recently arrested in Ohio for telling fellow students to refresh the schools web page in order to slow down the server. He is being charged with a felony and is currently being held in jail. According to Canton City Prosecutor Frank Forchione 'This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes, and we're just trying to find ways to solve them.'"

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  1. What joke? by va3atc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The dude clearly was wanting to disrupt the schools website
    Asking folks in an Internet chat room to help crash his high school's computer

    My personal website gets charged strictly for bandwidth and storage. If someone had a grudge against me and did this it would COST rather then just slow it down.

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