Here's a non-relevant anecdote you reminded me of:
Your anecdote reminded me of a story someone told me recently about AT&T. I am not going to type it all out here, but I will summarize. Company A hires Company B to do some trenching along the highway to install new fiber for Company A. Company B's backhoe operator accidentally cuts a major AT&T backbone causing serious outages. AT&T not only sues the backhoe driver, but Company B and Company A, forcing them both to declair chapter 11. My point is here, if we start taking hackers to court, what happens in this scenario: Hacker is from badguy.com telnets to compromised.jumpoff.com then SYN floods att.com? [Disclaimer: the hosts above were for demonstrative purposes only, the hosts are fictional, bearing no direct correlation to any living or dead] Who gets sued? Both providers, neither, or just the hacker? It brings up some interesting questions. Ben