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Felony For Refreshing a Web Page?
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.'"
AFAIK this barely even brushes up against being a felony, but let the school officials have their fun! Had they just ignored this and let it go (maybe take the kid aside and dress him down a bit), this would have slipped off the radar in half a day. As it is, they've loaded, locked, and are about to fire, aiming right at their own feet.
BTW, I'm just wondering who the first brave soul in slashdot is who will actually post the schools URL. (Also, BTW, it's pretty easily found in Google: Lake High School Uniontown Ohio, duh).
Fark!
I just commited 7 felonies waiting for this story to appear.
Who will guard the guards?
This school must have a pretty bad webserver if simply clicking on refresh brings the server to its knees. I mean, it's not like they were generating millions of hits.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
... after all the /. readers held down F5 to see if it really worked
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. - Rene Descartes (1637)
Sounds like a distributed denial of service attack. He just left out the automation.
Logically, the only thing that distinguishes a DoS from the Slashdot Effect is intent. If your intent is to spread awareness of the material that appears on a server, and the server can't handle it, well, that's tough for the server, but that's how the Internet works. If your intent is to take the server down, that's illegal.
Up until now, most deliberate attacks were automated, making it easy to separate overwhelming legit traffic from attacks -- but that's only really as accurate as trying to separate legitimate city traffic from criminals by assuming that anyone on foot is a burglar.
Of course, when you get down to the level of intent, you get to his contention that "Help me crash my school's server" was a joke, and that he wasn't actually trying to get people to follow through. And things get murky.
This problem can be solved through software already -- the school didn't take necessary means to avoid such a simple "DoS" style attack.
Even so, it seems crazy to me to waste taxpayer dollars chasing down this citizen and even more dollars prosecuting him. While the law is supposed to be around to protect property, I don't see how this is a felony. He didn't do the refreshing, did he? He used his right to speak freely.
I'm sure I'll hear the standard arguments about how speech can be regulated and I repudiate all of them. Crying fire in a theatre is private property -- the Constitution protects nothing on private property and the theatre owner is responsible for setting the standards of speech. Telling someone how to make a bomb is also free expression/speech -- you're not making the bomb. In this case, if clicking excessively is a crime (I can't believe it would be), the people who did the act should be indicted.
I'd love to see what real crimes are happening right now in Canton City -- murders, rapes, thefts. Speeding tickets and telling people to refresh a website repeatedly are nothing compared to real property crime. The last quote about trying to solve them reads more to me like they're "trying to find ways to exploit them."
For the school -- they can now expect this to happen more often. The publicity in charging this guy is going to be mostly negative in the minds of the students. All we need now is to get the link visible on slashdot, right?
and you've got a new way to fill the jails!
Lake High School
http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/ was offline before I could even find its url in Google.
I love the complete bullshit way this article frames the situation. He didn't put a link, he "created a website, which connected to the school's system." ooo.. sinister.. yeah...
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
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Simply take the bare facts of a story, throw in some out-of-context quotes and counter-factual insinuations, and that boring story about some punk's criminal mischief is suddenly about the Man's insane overreaction to a harmless prank!
It's fun for the whole family! Get yours today!
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Slashdot is in a heap of trouble.
I read the internet for the articles.
.. Canton City just got their first set of traffic lights installed.
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Frank Forchione was quoted as saying
"Hot Diggidy, this new fangled technology sure is mighty fine !, but it's created a whole wave of crimes, and we'll just have to find ways to solve them."
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
cheap labor conservatives - they want to keep you hungry enough to be thankful for minimum wage.
Here's a link to a video newstory that provides some more details: http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=18650&si d=45721&bw=
This story has been up on Digg.com for a few hours, the school's website has been down most of the day
i think we should bring a class action lawsuit against all companies that make keyboards, they are manufacturing unsafe products that encourage criminal behavior in america's youth by their continued inclusion of the button 'F5'
vodka, straight up, thank you!
Since the school's site is already DDoS'd, here is the Canton Law Dept. Let's see how fast we can take the prosecutor down.
This is their webpage.
It's dead, predictably. Once again some morons in authority have demonstrated their complete lack of understanding of internet culture. Anyone with an ounce of knowledge of the way people like us think would have dealt with this as quietly as possible so as not to incur the wrath of the entire world. Instead, they thought they'd be smart and "show what they do about this kind of joke", or whatever it was they said.
They shall pay the price for their lack of vision...
Than Slashdot should have been in jail long ago. Isn't that exactly what this website is good for?
According to the folks at Fark, who got to it before the slashdotting, it only had about 900 hits total. Come on, they crashed the server in NINE HUNDRED HITS?!
http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/
The site is actually down, which is a shame; it would have been a nice oppurtunity to see if we could get Zonk thrown in jail for posting it on the Slashdot front page.
My 3D Texturing Skinning work (under construction)
"18 year old man arrested for DDoSing his schools website by encouraging other students to quickly click refresh. In retaliation for his incarciration, he used his telephone call to call his freind Stevie, whom he told to post to /. and all the schools servers were /.ed."
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
This doesn't make any sense, at all.
- If a boy tells his friend to reload a webpage, he gets thrown into jail and gets felony charges.
- A lone spammer gets $11 billion in fines.
- If joe sixpack downloads a movie he gets huge fines.
Yet, if a medium to large corporation sell/delete customer records, infect consumers computers with spyware or the like, they only get a slap on the wrist?
When did corporations get more freedoms than individuals?
He arranged a Denial of Service attack. Think of his "fellow students" as zombies and him as a script kiddie, then pretend you're the admin or legit user of this site. Now tell me you wouldn't be a wee bit perturbed. This is akin to willfull destruction of property and saying he's only guilt of refreshing a browser is like saying a car thief is only guilt of moving your car.
A felony is a bit harsh though. Perhaps there were significant damages involved. Or the cops are out of control.
Wow. They even give you his street address, in case you wanna walk up and punch him in the face. He's no longer safe from the school bullies! ...Provided he ever gets out of jail.
Last year, an article on the WEWS Channel 5 website had this gem of a quote:
"School officials are not sure they [know] what has caused so many pregnancies..."
Someone needs to get these people a clue-bat.
if i break your arm because i didn't see you standing behind me while i was moving a heavy piece of furniture, then there should be mild repercussions
if i break your arm by taking it, looking dead in your eye, and twisting it as hard as i can, then there should be severe repercussions
the whole issue is one of intent
intent matters in this world, and any opinion that ignores intent, about this kid, or a whole range of modern problems in this world, is not a useful or valid opinion
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
As a concerned user of fully patched Gentoo, I have tested the "F5 causes excessive reloading" vulnerability. It works on Konqueror, Mozilla and Firefox, with all patches installed, including hardened kernel. Local access to the machine is NOT required; the F5 vulnerability can be triggered when opening a web browser through, e.g., SSH forwarded X connections.
I hope there will be a patch soon!
This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes
Behold the refresh button, the wonder of modern technology.
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Cmdrtaco & Drew Curtis should be on death row!
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Yes, it's a low-tech sort of DDoS attack but it's not automated. He didn't actually do it himself. It involved the willful cooperation of other individuals. That makes it more like a "grassroots movement".
What if he had said, "Send an info request letter to my school, to swamp the mail-room," hmm?? That's the hardcopy version of what he did. Would he get thrown in jail for that?
I can understand that people wouldn't be pleased by this kid inciting a bit of social disruption, but calling it a felony and throwing him in jail is far too extreme.
There was a time when we made an important distinction between types of crimes. Misdemeanors were "minor crimes" annoyances that can be cleared up easily enough and are a) not worth making permanent and b) best forgotten once the problems is solved. A classic example is littering, or spraypainting something on a park bench. The former is solved by making the littebug pick up their garbage (and mabye some other peoples') and the latter by having the offendor repaint the bench brown. In both cases the offence can be "fixed" and the individual can learn form a simple dressing down. In most juristictions misdemeanors are not even recorded (or didn't used to be) and never ever became part of someone's permanent criminal record (especially a minor). Moreover misdemeanors aren't liable for jail time above and beyond "time served" (in the drunk tank).
Felonies are major or "permanent" crimes such as theft, maim, and murder. They connotate crimes that cannot be simply "cleaned up", crimes that cannot be undone in any meaningful sense and crimes that may signal permanent problems for the individual in question. Felonies attatch much stiffer penalties (for both juveniles and adults) as well as "permanence". In some states felons lose the right to vote permanently. This is politely known as "Civil Disenfranchisement". In Midevil times it was associated with the term "Civil Death". Felons are also forbidden from obtaining some jobs (in government), and have to tell all other employers of their status. They are also often forbidden from obtaining some scholarships and grants. While not all of these attatch automatically to juvenile felons many of them do. Increasing numbers of states are making no distinction between juvenile felonies and adult felonies. Unlike midsdemeanor crimes felons are truly marked for life.
The basic upshot of this is that this kid could be harmed for life for what is, in essence, a nothing crime. He encouraged people to visit a website and thereby caused a server to run slow, not stop, not crash, not burst into flames, just run slow. This is a temporary problem, a fixable problem, and one that doesn't even require two coats of paint.
This is a dangerous, vicious overreaction on the part of the city prosecutor, and the school officials. They are abusing their power and risk punishing a kid for life for something that should be handled by a stern talking to and no dessert.
Some ex convicts carry around a felony conviction that prevents them from re-entering society or impairs them in some way thus encouraging a return to crime. How much worse is that when the conviction is for something less-damaging than littering.
On another note, I wonder when the prosecutor's up for reelection?
"inciting detrimental group behavior is far from a new thing, and should be punished."
So I suppose you are for punishing Ghandi? Or Martin Luther King, Jr? Or any one of many other civil disobedians.
I realize this isn't civil disobedience but my point is this: punishment is not always the best answer.
America,
For the last 25 years you have been voting for a Police State. And now that's exactly what you have. Congratulations, Democracy really works.
Now shut up, bend over and take it like a man.
-S
And later it states that if the damage caused is more than $1000 that it is a felony. According to this definition though, no damage was caused...nothing was 'Altered', 'Damaged', or 'Destroyed'. How exactly did they prosecute him?
You fail logic. Unless of course it was your intention to imply that Ghandi's and King's actions were "detrimental". I've always thought of them as positive actions.
And you fail philosophy and politics. Did you think the people Ghandi and King were acting against thought their actions were positive? I'm pretty sure the British Government, and many US State governments (as well as many people of the time) didn't hold your view that these were positive actions. These are also the people with the power to prosecute. Get it?
AccountKiller
I'd do it again!
(click)
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Corporation tries to answer this question. Pretty cool documentary. It's slightly left-leaning but it does show the opinions of both righties and lefties as well as ex and current CEO's from various huge multinational corporations. Very interesting.
If you don't want to purchase or rent it, you can find a torrent on Sweden's favourite torrent site. :)
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Yeah, I hate it when I break that ordinance...
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
HA! An overloaded server is damage? Tremendous?
I think this guy is trying to turn an overloaded school website (like anyone visits that anyway) into a mini-9/11.
Tremendous Damage is essentially reserved for 9/11, Oklahoma City, type damage.
IMHO that's borderline slander since it's extremely unlike for any true damage, forget about "Tremendous".
Those are just words to get in the paper, at the expense of someone else's reputation.
If I were that kids parents, I'd consider a lawsuit. Then again, nobody ever wins a lawsuit against a prosecutor.
Caution liberal/liberitarian/green content (rant) ahead!
For some reason I feel like I should have seen something like this coming. Frankly the criminal justice system in the United States is absolutly ill-equiped to deal with technology crime. In general, it is a system that has morphed into a plea-bargain machine that charges people with the most henious crime they can make fit and then work on reaching a "equitable sentence" through a plea-bargain. Ultimately the student will be allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge (it this case, probably a misdemenor).
There are a few things about this system that are GROSSLY UNJUST!
First, there are no rules that allow both sides to play the game evenly. The prosicutor makes them up as he goes along and changes them when and if he wants.
If you can't afford an attorney (and what eighteen year-old high school student can?) you will probably be appointed a public defender who is over-worked, under-paid and probably only a couple years out of law-school. He (or she) will consider it a victory if they can get the plea-bargain down to a misdemenor (even if no crime was committed).
If the kid's parents can afford a (good) private-practice lawyer they will have to pay thousands if not tens of thousands for the defense. There are a couple of reasons for this, one is that the lawyer knows they can get that kind of money from those kinds of people. Another reason is that the lawyer will have to hire experts that can educate him about the technology just so he can get an idea of what the charges really are about. Finally, if it makes it to court, there will have to be money to pay the experts to come in to court and testify. Naturally, the lawyer will want all of this money up front.
On the other side of the table, you may be facing a lawyer who wants to make a name for himself. He is aware of the failures of the system and knows how to exploit them to achieve his goals (personal or political). If the defendant gets a public defender he knows to prey on the over-worked defender and will offer a bad-deal that is just good enough to make the public defender sell it to the defendant. He also knows that the public defender has very little money for expert witnesses. If he faces a private practice lawyer, he will fight a delaying action, not offering much of a deal knowing that the cost-to-fight will soon bankrupt most people. He too can play the expert-game, only he has a county IS geek as a professional witness (so it costs him very little).
Don't forget, the state's attorney is graded on his conviction rate (not on if justice was served). His raises and promotions depend on a good record with a high conviction rate.
This is a system that is so broken it deserves to be tore completely down and rebuilt. You don't have to be an innocent man on death row to feel the injustice. Criminal Justice deserves two sides that are equally capable, equally funded, and fair for people of every income level. A CEO of a Fortune 500 company deserves the exact same treatment that a homeless windo deserves. Justice needs to be blind to status, race, gender, faith, orientation, or anything else (other than justice). It is the United States greatest failure as a country (although the health care system comes damned close).
Theft!
He is making them steal MEGAHERTZ!
The Lake Local School District is hosting a new web site this year. The new "official" district web site is http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/.
When appropriate, visitors will be linked back to the former district site http://www.lakelocal.org/
Or this site http://lakelocal.oh.schoolwebpages.com/
In the 60s, when I was growing up, only real bad offenses were deemed felonies. Murder, Rape, Arson, Armed Robbery and other stuff like that. Then along comes a new breed of careerist prosecutors and grandstanding politicians, all one-uping each other to see who could be toughest on crime. They're ratcheted damn near everything up to felony status. Are there any misdimeanors anymore?
In my state and others, many drug offenses carry longer mandatory minimum sentences than violent crimes. I was buying ammo recently at a gun shop. There was a sticker beside the register which warned of a 10 year sentence for buying a firearm for someone who shouldn't have one. Well, there ought to be a serious penalty for that but Armed Bank Robbery carries a 7 year penalty. Either the illegal gun purchase should carry a shorter penalty or the violent robbery should carry more. It's nuts.
These officials who slapped the HS kid with a felony say they're doing it to send a message. This is zero tolerance run amuk. All this felonizing of picayune offenses reminds me of something Deep Purple Ian Gilliam joked about on the Made In Japan album, "Make everything louder than everthing else."
Wansu, th' chinese sailor
http://www.lakelocal.k12.oh.us/lhshome.htm
Excuse me for pointing this out, but where exactly are the damages that relate to this felony. If this kid finds a lawyer with even an ounce of brains, the court case should last thirty seconds.
Lawyer: Why do you have a web site?
School: So the public can access it.
Lawyer: So, is the same machine running it today?
School: Yes.
Lawyer: Does it run on the same connection?
School: Yes.
Lawyer: And it runs the same software, with the same data?
School: Yes.
Lawyer: So, in fact, nothing was erased or altered on the machine in any way? Correct?
School: Yes.
Lawyer: Did your service provider charge you with any extra fees?
School: No.
Lawyer: So, apart from a handful of extra traffic, which you admit slowed down but did not stop, damage, or destroy hardware, software, or data, and which did not cost you any extra money, you had not other damages?
School: Uhm, well, I guess that's correct.
Lawyer: Tell me, do you sue the driver in front of you if he slows down, or charge the slow walking grandmother holding up the line with a felony?
School: Uhm, no.
Lawyer: Tell me, if all the phone lines are in use at the school because people are calling them, is that a felony? Are prank calls a felony?
School: Er, no.
Lawyer: So, your basis for the "damage" in this case is that a student basically asked his friends to "call-up" the computer until you had a busy signal.
School: Yes.
Lawyer: In fact, your entire web site listed less than 900 hits before it was Slashdotted into oblivion. Tell me, have you started legal proceedings against the news agency that took the story national, or Zonk for posting it on Slashdot?
School: Erm, no.
Lawyer: So, you're only willing to harrass young children? To send a child to prison for what amounts to no more than a phone call where they hang up? Is that what you feel is acceptable? Is that, in fact, what you view as teaching our children?
School: Er, do I have to answer that?
Lawyer: Well, you are making me wait, keeping me busy, I might have to file a felony suit against you for that...
Life, the Universe, and Everything... in my image.
That Lake High School is just outside of Toledo, OH. The Lake High School in question is near Canton, in the East.
Fnord.
Since when do harmless pranks get you sent to jail?!
And yes it was a harmless prank, the server didn't even come down. And even if it had it would have come back up at what, the end of the class period?
I can remember getting in trouble for making various projectile devices ranging from spitwads to a pen crossbow (that would put a chopstick into a wall....ok that was kinda dangerous) and I never got freaking arrested.
Schools are ridiculous these days. Let kids be kids.
Question everything
From my experience, high school admins are usually the very bottom-of-the-barrel when it comes to computer ops. Mine was an english major turned high school english teacher turned highschool sysadmin. He suspended me for for three days just for running a network scan on the servers.
"Michael said it was a joke," Forchione said. "We showed him how we deal with this kind of joke."
Being 18, they showed him, indeed, considering he will have a felony in the database tracking him for the rest of his life. In lieu of a job, I guess he can get a book from Loompanics on how to cook meth and be a drug dealer.
But I suppose they had to balance the ethical issues to reach a wise decision. I mean, it's hard to imagine the horror of school web sites crashing around the country. That would send a signal that we're weak on terra.
The more the idea takes hold in my mind, the easier it is to see examples of what cowardly bullies Americans are. Yup, the Canton police really showed this kid what happens when you mess with the school web site. "Take that computer-using high school kid!"
Maybe Kevin Mitnick can get him gigs speaking at the high school circuit?
That has actually come up as one of the major arguments aginst such laws. As the page I referenced noted the practice of "Civil Death" goes back (at least) to the Romans. But it isn't practiced as much in the U.S. precisely because of that argument. Other arguments marshalled against it include the notion of Cruel and Unusual punishment (for a minor felony a life punishment is too much) and the notion of Double Joepardy. If the Jail Time is the punishment then what is the virtue of extending ti forever, etc.
Ultimately it all comes down to the stigma of the crime.
That *was* engrossing, but personally I found this 7.2MB pdf on Zone Change Procedures to be even more informative:
e s/zonechangesample.pdf
http://www.cityofcanton.com/safetyservice/bldgcod
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
The Stark county Sheriff's office had some outdated information in the previous post-- Sherriff W. Bruce Umpleby died several years ago-- here's the updated info: 4500 Atlantic Blvd. NE Canton, OH 44705 Phone: 330-430-3850 Fax: 330-430-3839 Sherriff Tim Swanson I was actually *referred* to the prosecutor to find details on how to donate for the kids' legal fees, though Frank didn't seem to know. The number I was forwarded for the county prosecutor (Frank Forchione) was 330-305-0084 if you wish to contact him for details on the case, and or find out what the heck he's thinking. As a director that deals with *real* security issues regularly, setting this kind of legal precedent is quite dangerous, and would be terrible for the internet community. If there's any EFF types reading this, please post information on how to open a donation fund for the defendant's legal costs, or how to contribute to an existing one.
Canton Muncipal Court -- Criminal Division
2006 CRA 00060 MICHAEL WAYNE STONE
Birth Date: 11-16-1987
13634 MOGADORE AVE NW UNIONTOWN OH 44685
Judge:
2909.04 F4-DISRUPTING PUBLIC SERVICES
Docket Entry
01-06-2006 COPIES OF COMPLAINT SERVED ON DEFENDANT AND DEFENDANT APPEARRED AND ADVISED OF CHARGES PRELIMINARY HEARING SET FOR 01-12-2006 @ 3:15 PM
01-06-2006 ON THIS DAY THE DEFENDANT APPEARED WITH 20850-JOHN GIUA ATTORNEY OF RECORD
01-05-2006 BOND POSTED $2,500.00 UNSECURED WITH SUPERVISION OF PTS DUE TO EMERGENCY RELEASE ON 01-04-2006
01-05-2006 ARRAIGNMENT SET FOR 01-06-2006 @ 9:00 AM
01-05-2006 DEFENDANT ARRESTED ON WARRANT 01-04-2006. TRANSFERRED TO STARK COUNTY JAIL IN LIEU BOND. FORM 8 FILED
01-04-2006 PROBABLE CAUSE FOUND. REFER TO BOND SCHEDULE FOR BOND INFORMATION BY JUDGE RICHARD J. KUBILUS
01-04-2006 DEFENDANT'S PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FORM FILED AND ISSUED
01-04-2006 WARRANT ISSUED ON 01/04/2006; (UNTWN)
01-04-2006 2909.04 (F4) - DISRUPTING PUBLIC SERVICES COMPLAINT FILED
Source: http://www.starkcountycjis.org/cjis2/docket/main.h tml
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2909.04. Disrupting public services.
(A) No person, purposely by any means or knowingly by damaging or tampering with any property, shall do any of the following:
(1) Interrupt or impair television, radio, telephone, telegraph, or other mass communications service; police, fire, or other public service communications; radar, loran, radio, or other electronic aids to air or marine navigation or communications; or amateur or citizens band radio communications being used for public service or emergency communications;
(2) Interrupt or impair public transportation, including without limitation school bus transportation, or water supply, gas, power, or other utility service to the public;
(3) Substantially impair the ability of law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, emergency medical services personnel, or emergency facility personnel to respond to an emergency or to protect and preserve any person or property from serious physical harm.
(B) No person shall knowingly use any computer, computer system, computer network, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system or the internet so as to disrupt, interrupt, or impair the functions of any police, fire, educational, commercial, or governmental operations.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disrupting public services, a felony of the fourth degree.
(D) As used in this section:
(1) "Emergency medical services personnel" has the same meaning as in section 2133.21 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Emergency facility personnel" means any of the following:
(a) Any of the following individuals who perform services in the ordinary course of their professions in an emergency facility:
(i) Physicians authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery;
(ii) Registered nurses and licensed practical nurses licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code;
(iii) Physician assistants authorized to practice under Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code;
(iv) Health care workers;
(v) Clerical staffs.
(b) Any individual who is a security officer performing security services in an emergency facility;
(c) Any individual who is present in an emergency facility, who was summoned to the facility by an individual identified in division (D)(2)(a) or (b) of this section.
(3) "Emergency facility" means a hospital emergency department or any other facility that provides emergency medical services.
(4) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code.
(5) "Health care worker" means an i
Call the FBI.
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Not only has this killed the High School's website, but it seems other schools (and stuff) were hosted on at the same place:
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o bjectives.php
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i ndex.html
Lake High School http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/hs/
Lake Middle School http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/ms/
Lake Elementary http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/le/
Hartville Elementary http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/he/
Uniontown Elementary http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/ue/
Lake County District http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/
Staff Login http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/login.php
Athletics http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/athletics
News http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/news/news.php
Help Desk Login http://staff.lake.stark.k12.oh.us/helpdesk/login.
Mr. Wood's Homepage http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/~wooddave/compsciiii-
AP Calculus http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/~erbdave/Calculus/ind
Mr. Erb's Homepage http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/~erbdave/main.php
Jester Labs http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/~wooddave/jesterlabs/
BTW: According to Google's cached version of their site from Jan 1, 2006 03:32:05 GMT:
"This page has been viewed 580 times! Powered by CMS Made Simple 0.10.4"Heh heh heh... IF it ever recovers from the /.ing it'll read "This page has been viewed 7.2*10^36. Please see Mr. Erb for conversion details."
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
People modded you as funny, but if you read the actual law, then yes, pushing all the buttons in an elevator could, in fact, be a felony:
... electronic device or system ... so as to disrupt, interrupt, or impair the functions of any ... commercial ... operations.
SB 146, Sec 2909.04:
(B) No person shall knowingly use any
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disrupting public services, a felony of the fourth degree.
(Law snippet borrowed from previous poster...)
That's not really funny at all.
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
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Steve
And since it's a felony, if he does this twice more they'll sentence him to life in prison.
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...if he'd told all his friends to mail a bunch of letters right around Dec. 25 in order to bog down the postal service! Denial of Service!
Ok, so If I invite 100,000 of my friends to sit in front of a restaurant, am I a felon? No, its called non violent protesting. Of course, the restaurant could argue that not being able to attend customers is a "damange", but if my friends don't start braking windows you can't jail me for instilling violent actions. Now there is another half of this story we aren't being told, and that is, why are students so willing to DDOS the school's site? This is the behavior of an unhappy alumnae. Now the funny thing is that physicaly invading the school's servers room is punished less harshly than doing so virtually. Welcome to the land of free shutting down public speech. The next step is getting the students to protest in front of the jail. Oops now I am a felon too...
But... the future refused to change.
from google cache of the site
: Lake High School
1025 Lake Center Street
Uniontown, Ohio 44685-9462
Office (330) 877-4282
Attendance (330) 877-4762
Fax (330) 877-0853
Office hours when school is in session: 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All visitors must enter Door #1 and sign in at the main office.
Lake High School is located in Stark County, Ohio. A total of 1220 students in grades nine through twelve make up the student body.
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In meat-space, there are laws that let people be charged with misdemeanors like "Creating a nuisance." You might get charged with this if you got 20 people to go into a department store and hold relay races in the isles. Isn't this guy's behavior more in line with this, than "computer crime?"
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