Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

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

[Psion]

Yes, but what if one of the snipers breaks a law? Hmmm? Who snipes the snipers?

Re:And they wonder why...

[mobby_6kl]

>Where's the "Like" button?

That's the "Insightful" or "Interesting" option, which you don't have but I do. Oops!

Re:Importance

[mooingyak]

Who snipes the snipers?

I prefer it in Latin, "Quis snipodiet ipsos snipodes?"

Re:But when the situation is reversed....

[real gumby]

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!