Sweden to Make Denial of Service Attacks Illegal

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 19, 2007 @10:30AM from the play-nicer dept.

paulraps writes "Sweden is to pass legislation making Denial of Service attacks illegal. The offense will carry a maximum jail term of two years, and is thought to be a direct response to the attack which crashed the Swedish police's web site last summer. Nobody was charged for that, but the fact that it came shortly after a raid on the Pirate Bay's servers was thought by many to be not entirely coincidental. Sweden's move follows the UK, which is even tougher on web attackers — there the sentence can be over five years in prison."

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Slashdotted. by morgan_greywolf · 2007-02-19 10:35 · Score: 4, Funny

So does this mean that they're gonna arrest Taco, Zonk and Co.?

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1. Re:Slashdotted. by nmb3000 · 2007-02-19 10:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So does this mean that they're gonna arrest Taco, Zonk and Co.?
  
  It's worth a try!
  
  *cough* :)
  
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My rights online! by anthony_dipierro · 2007-02-19 10:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Geez, so now it's illegal in Sweeden to crash people's websites! What's gonna be next, a law against blowing up mailboxes?