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Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks

Posted by Soulskill on from the distributed-denial-of-freedom-attack dept.

wiredmikey writes "A former University of Akron student was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release for conducting denial of service attacks on the sites of several prominent conservative figures as well as infecting several systems with botnet software. Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio admitted that between August 2006 and March 2007, he initiated denial of service attacks on web servers hosting the sites of political commentators, including Bill O'Reilly, Rudy Giuliani, Ann Coulter, and others."

3 of 486 comments (clear)

  1. Re:As a rabid lefty by clarkkent09 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't know if you realize it but you were acting like a thug in that comment.

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  2. Re:Jesus! 30 months!!? by lahvak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How in the heck did this get "5 insightful"? Are the moderators on Meth or what?

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  3. Re:As a rabid lefty by cheekyjohnson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Time"

    I suppose it did take time for them to fix the problem.

    "money"

    In order for something to be taken, it must first exist.

    At any rate, it's certainly not worth a 30 month punishment.

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