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Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories (itwire.com)
New submitter troublemaker_23 shares a report from iTWire: A 32-year-old man from Seattle who was arrested for mounting a series of distributed denial of service attacks on businesses in Australia, the U.S. and Canada, wanted articles about himself removed from various news sites, including Fairfax Media. According to an FBI chargesheet filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (Dallas Division), Kamyar Jahanrakhshan tried to get articles removed from the Sydney Morning Herald, a site for legal articles known as Leagle.com, Metronews.ca, a Canadian news website, CBC in Canada and Canada.ca. The chargesheet, filed by FBI special agent Matthew Dosher, said Jahanrakhshan migrated to the U.S. in 1991 and took U.S. citizenship; he then moved to Canada about four years later and became a permanent resident there. He had a conviction for second degree theft in Washington state in 2005 and this was vacated in August 2011; he also had a 2011 conviction for fraud and obstruction in Canada. In each case, Jahanrakhshan, who was deported back to the U.S. as a result of the Canada crime, launched DDoS attacks on the news websites and then contacted them. Further reading: Ars Technica
DDOS != double-down on slashdot
Kamyar "The Streisand" Jahanrakhshan is more famous than ever!
Yeah you write to them and tell them you did it, and then you expect not to get in trouble for it how exactly? Sounds like Canada let a real winner in there, at least they get to send him back to the U.S. Can the revoke his citizenship and send him back to his original home, or are they stuck with him now?
The weirdest part it, it was several years after the articles were published. Who was still even finding them?
I can't wait to see the Slashdot users to line up to defend this criminal.
I am one person who hopes this guy get the full weight of the law thrown at him since I was one of the people affected by the DDoS attack but in my case, I could see what this scumbag was doing but could not legally do anything.
The actual DDoS attack did not affect my machine although it made any outside communication pretty slow to the point where it was just pointless surfing the WEB. I am not just blaming the idiot (why waste grey matter on remembering his name) but the people who let their PC's be taken over to be used in a botnet and it is not that difficult tracing those infected PC's back to their respective ISP's although it would be difficult do anything about them since some were in different countries including Russa, Germany, Thailand ... etc just to name a few.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.