Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network

aricusmaximus writes "A California student is now facing felony conspiracy charges after unleashing a botnet attack that shut down the network of a Seattle hospital intensive care unit. This indictment comes a few weeks after another California man pled guilty to similar charges. Both attacks were attempts to make money off of adware affiliate programs. So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network? Or the adware companies for providing the incentive?"

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In my opinion

[Bazzalisk]

The students are guilty of teh crime, but the adware companies are guilty of conspiricy to comit teh crime - and in this case I think that they are rather more culpable, since they are encouraging more people to do this. By all means prosecute the students (they deserve it), but if you want to fix the problem you need to chop off the monster's head.

Re:Who's at fault?

[gwar11d2]

Hmm, And I thought Al Gore invented the internet.