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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."
Depends how this tool works. If it simulates a botnet attack, then sure, totally legal. But if it's just a paid front-end client for an illegal zombie botnet, then I can see how it could be considered illegal.
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that it should be illegal to use it against someone against their will... sure.
But to even own it? No.
You can't do system testing without tools that are effectively hack tools. And even if you've no good reason to have it, it isn't the government's place to say what programs we have or don't have.
I think you missed something: considering the tool is built on hacked routers, hubs and other kinds of devices yes, it is illegal. Regular systems testing tools aren't built on hacked devices owned by others.
it's not a 'hack tool' it's a front end website to a backend zombie army of compromised routers, where do you think all the bandwidth for the DDOS is coming from? Their wordpress hosting plan?
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