On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
On 12/8/2010 11:28 AM, William McCall wrote:
Are you prepared for "informaton terrorism" laws?
DOS attacks are already illegal. I question the ability to track responsible parties down and have appropriate proof to actually prosecute.
Let's be honest. Even in the 20th century, more people had been caught by bragging in public than by backtracking.
so... the loic tool uses the host's local address, the attacks are all HTTP based, or tcp/80 with malformed HTTP... someone with server logs could certainly get a list of the ips involved and hand that over to the FBI for proper action. I know that the folks involved on the MC side already have this data, and that the fbi is interested in it. -chris