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Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks
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."
Welcome kid, to the socially accepted and socially encouraged rape rooms of the new leaders of Iraq. Don't fuck with the republicans, because they will fuck you, and fuck you hard.
Let's be realistic - he committed theft, probably in thousands of dollars. He then maliciously prepared systems to later blackmail their owners. The Internet is not just porn - there is a lot of money transferring hands, even if it is only advertising dollars. If you would choose rape over theft because you'd get less time, that make you warped - not the system.
Our definitions of pranks must be different, a DDOS attack sounds as much like a prank as breaking into a jewelry shop and breaking all the glass display cases.
Sure, you may not have stolen anything, but it's hardly a prank.
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
Just like these damn liberals who went out of their way to suppress opinions that differ from their own....oh wait..
http://pubrecord.org/special-to-the-public-record/8121/rigging-of-digg-covert-mob-conservatives/
It is my observation after being on Slashdot for a very long time that if this guy had gotten 30 years for a DDoS on Wikileaks you'd have been dancing in the streets for joy - I wish the collective "we" here on Slashdot were capable of a little more objectivity, the guy committed crimes, he was found guilty, he got time - yes he committed his crimes against conservatives, and maybe he even thought it was noble, but there are other ways to protest against other peoples views that don't involve criminal activities...
Free speech allows him to write his own website, it doesn't allow him to break theirs.
Couldn't you argue his packets are simply speech? He's merely broadcasting a specific message to the network.
What's the difference between this and getting a million of your like-minded peers to call/fax complaints to a specific number?
(I'm playing a little bit of devil's advocate, but I'm given to understand there are cases that blur this line...)
Tweet, tweet.
Proof of an organized left-wing "bury brigade" = none. Thank you for playing AC.
Remember how many people have been called "racist" for disagreeing with Obama's politics?
You mean those people at rallies with confederate flags and racist signs?
"From the depths of my skeptical and rationalist soul, I ask the Lord to protect me from California touchie-feeliedom."
Here is a news flash, criminals do NOT get to determine their own sentence. We, the rest of society do and as a group we don't want any misbehaving.
And it is a rare criminal to fully accept what he did was wrong and how much damage it cost. Oh but I only raped her for a bit of fun, she knew that when I knocked her teeth out that I was only playing.
You see, complaining that your punishment is so harsh and hurts you so much is kinda missing the point that the majority (and they get to do the telling) WANT punishment to be harsh and hurt criminals so much.
And since you are completly unwilling to tell us WHAT you did that you claim was a prank, I think you KNOW that most would NOT call it a silly prank.
Or are you afraid you got pounded in the ass for five years for blowing up a mail box? No damage? What about the mail that was inside? Oh but that doesn't matter that someone doesn't get a notice of a death so they can attend the funeral. Just as long as you had a bit of fun.
Enjoy your criminal record.
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You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.