phishing?
" The offending post said that first conviction may "put other script-kiddie type hackers on notice that they can be tracked down and prosecuted"."
And it worked rather well.
Got a schoolboy response.
Oklahoma man Benjamin Earnest Nichols faces up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleading guilty to launching a distributed denial of service attack against security consultancy mccrewsecurity.com. Nichols, 37, pled guilty to one count of causing the transmission of a program or …
... deserves to do some time in the clink, but "...up to 10 years jail in a United States federal prison and a US$250,000 fine" seems totally out of proportion for causing damages up to 6500$ and harassing the victims. This sounds as some law from the eighteen century, when someone could be hanged for stealing a loaf of bread!.
I hope the judge doesn't apply anything close to the maximum sentence.
Had to laugh at the irc bot set up to spew insults. Takes me back "quite a few" years to the days of that cesspool of attacks known as efnet and writing tcl scripts for eggdrop bots (and having lots of geographically diverse hosts for a gaggle of eggdrops to stop someone smurfing all the opers off, we had a very desirable room name and erris free lacked any protection for chanops then). Ours just served beer and stuff when you did a !beer though. Learned a lot about ddos and keeping things secure though. I'd just laugh if all the attack bot did was shout a few insults in response to a !tosser or something. Its a bit monty python french taunter isnt it :D
Have to read up why the "security consultancy" couldn't just ban it or get it a kline or worse.