Man Gets 3 Years for Botnet Attack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday August 26, 2006 @10:27PM from the nice-job-macgruff dept.

Vobbo writes "Weeks after NANOG subscribers argued whether or not mitigating botnet command and control systems was a worthwhile endeavor, the LA Times reports that the old fashioned method of arresting and prosecuting criminals still works. Prosecutors successfully prosecuted a 21 year old who had conspired to create botnets that attacked the Department of Defense, a California school district, and a Seattle hospital before being arrested. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 3 years of 'supervised release.'"

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I'm concerned... by macadamia_harold · 2006-08-26 22:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Prosecutors successfully prosecuted a 21 year old who had conspired to create botnets that attacked the Department of Defense

But was the botnet able to find Sarah Connor, in order to pre-emptively destroy the human resistance?

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