Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service

An anonymous reader writes: UK officials have arrested six teenagers suspected of utilizing Lizard Squad's website attack tool called "Lizzard Stresser". Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the infamous Christmas Day Xbox Live and PlayStation Network attacks. The teenagers "are suspected of maliciously deploying Lizard Stresser, having bought the tool using alternative payment services such as Bitcoin in a bid to remain anonymous," an NCA spokesperson wrote in an official statement on the case. "Organizations believed to have been targeted by the suspects include a leading national newspaper, a school, gaming companies, and a number of online retailers."

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Re:I disagree that this tool should be illegal

[ruir]

Nobody even bothered to read the parent well. Slashdot sucks. It should not be deemed illegal to own it to investigate how to fight it. Period.

Six People Thick As Pigshit Shocker

[NDrinks]

Welcome to The Internet.

Re: I disagree that this tool should be illegal

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the UK, they don't use guns. You see, merkins, you don't need guns to make people do as you demand under threat of violence. Nor does the owning of guns do anything but make it easier to pretend you were a dangerous killer who needed to be shot for "appearing to reach for a gun". After all, if "everyone has a gun", then surely the police officer was right to suspect you were armed, right?