Saturday, July 30, 2011

Don't Mess With Commerce

A journalism student at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who used the online alias "No" and "MMMM" faces 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if she is convicted of hacking charges related to the group "Anonymous."

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The DDoS attacks against PayPal violated federal laws against "unauthorized and knowing transmission of code or commands resulting in intentional damage to a protected computer system," according to the FBI. The attacks flood websites with meaningless web traffic to slow them down and can sometimes knock websites offline entirely.

Haefer was one of 14 individuals arrested nationwide for participating in the attacks against PayPal. She faces a charge of conspiracy to "commit Intentional Damage to a Protected Computer" and for alleged damage caused by the attack.

  Raw Story

Okay, number one, denial of service is not “damage” to a computer. That may be an interruption of business, but it is not damaging a computer. And number two, fifteen years? That seems a bit steep for slowing down a website. Would you get 15 years if you were driving while intoxicated and ran over a kid?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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