I think that there are appropriate (and possibly over-harsh depenidng on what combination of laws are applied) laws on the books to cover SYN-storm-type DoS attacks. I pity the first few who get caught... Avi
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:40:25 -0400 From: Dave Van Allen <dave@fast.net> To: "'inet-access@earth.com'" <inet-access@earth.com> Subject: RE: My First Denial of Service Attack..... [...] and we had the name of the user, their ISP, and other info in less than 15 minutes.
Just out of curiosity, what is the penalty for this sort of activity?
Note that people didn't seem to take software piracy very seriously until the Software Publishers Association was able to extract some fairly heavy fines from some large corporations. Up until that time, there was, in effect, no penalty for software piracy.
(This sounds like a good NANOG topic for some adventuresome soul...)
-tjs