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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..."
Yes, but what if one of the snipers breaks a law? Hmmm? Who snipes the snipers?
>Where's the "Like" button?
That's the "Insightful" or "Interesting" option, which you don't have but I do. Oops!
Who snipes the snipers?
I prefer it in Latin, "Quis snipodiet ipsos snipodes?"
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Your subject line raises an interesting point: I'd never before recognized that the Koch brothers' advertising and astroturfing is just a DDoS of the airwaves (and public discourse).
I already knew it is evil, but this takes it to a new level!