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Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute
jfruh writes "One of the most potent aspects of Anonymous is, well, its anonymity — but that isn't absolute. Eric Rosol was caught by federal authorities participating in a DDoS attack on a company owned by Koch Industry; for knocking a website offline for 15 minutes, Rosol got two years of probation and had to pay $183,000 in restitution (the amount Koch paid to a security consultant to protect its website ater the attack)."
The worst part? From the article: "Eric J. Rosol, 38, is said to have admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service attack for about a minute on a Web page of Koch Industries..."
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
He admitted to doing something illegal? He got caught and sentenced.
"But officer! My knife was only in his kidney for one second!"
... for offending our rich libertarian overlords.
Bow down before your masters, peon.
Fuck Koch Industries. And fuck the Koch brothers.
There they go again doing everything they can, anyway they can, to scrape more profit.
So one guy has to pay $183,000. Does that mean any other Anonymous members involved in the DDoS attack are going to get the same punishment? It does if the Koch brothers have anything to say about it. 'Cause: profit!
Think about it, the Koch bros. pay some "security consultant" $183,000 to fix the problem. But if they bust a couple of people involved. Not only do they break even, but they make a profit.
These scumbags deserve a lot worse than a DDoS attack. They're all about harsh punishment for people opposed to them and their so-called principles, maybe they need a taste of their own medicine.
It's not enough that they're richer than God, but they actively work to make others poorer through their manipulation of the American political process.