Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute 562
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..."
Re:Importance (Score:4, Funny)
Re:And they wonder why... (Score:5, Funny)
>Where's the "Like" button?
That's the "Insightful" or "Interesting" option, which you don't have but I do. Oops!
Re:Importance (Score:4, Funny)
Who snipes the snipers?
I prefer it in Latin, "Quis snipodiet ipsos snipodes?"
Re:But when the situation is reversed.... (Score:5, Funny)
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!