A DDoS attack is illegal. In the United States it is considered as theft of service. The legal construct used is that the DDoS attack is a theft of CPU cycles, compute resources, and power by other than the rightful owner for its intended purposes. Steven Naslund Chicago IL -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:30 AM To: Miles Fidelman Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare) On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:55:54 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
On 7/27/16 10:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
They just lost all respect from here. Would someone from USA please report these guys to the feds? What they are doing is outright criminal. hyperbole. it is not criminal. you just don't happen to like it.
Actually, as someone pointed out, it might well be conspiracy - which is criminal.
In general, the conspiracy isn't criminal if the conspired act isn't criminal. If you're trying to make a criminal conspiracy out of non-criminal acts, your best bet is probably finding a new way to abuse the RICO statutes.