Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday December 4, 2013 @03:49AM from the are-you-serious dept.

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..."

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"take part in ddos attack" by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-04 03:54 · Score: 0, Troll

equals "open the browser, write the url and press f5 multiple times"?
Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-04 04:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Because stabbing someone is the same thing as sending traffic to a website. I'm sure you would be happy with the death penalty for jaywalking too.
Re:Reply by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-04 05:02 · Score: 0, Troll

I'm a republican and I support a family of 3 on less than $90,000. I'm not rich.