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A UK teenager who admitted launching a denial of service attack on online multiplayer game Face Of Mankind has been reprimanded by police. The 16-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, launched the relatively unsophisticated SYN Flood attack throughout May 2007. As a result, Face Of Mankind's portal was regularly …

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  2. Jason Togneri
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    Ummm....

    He didn't even use a basic IP anonymiser?

    "Pretty stupid" indeed!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    One IP address...

    ...managed to generate enough SYNs data to take down the server? Why didn't they just block it?

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  4. Bad Pritt

    Why did they hire an outside firm?

    Most webmasters could have busted him quite easily seeing how "invisible mode" was his only attempt at anonymity.

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  5. bluesxman
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    @ Peter Leech

    Have you worked in IT recently? There's morons all over the shop!

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  6. Ash

    Fire the SysAdmin

    Why in the blue shit didn't he forward all traffic from that IP down the toilet?

    Guy isn't fit for changing toners...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Ojom - useless company

    The guy used one IP and you still had to hire an outside company when you could have simply blocked or forwarded the fake packets somewhere else... useless company... no wonder why the game ceases to exist now...

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