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RE: hacked server, DDoS bin installed -- To put it another way...

from [Tim Hollebeek] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: RE: hacked server, DDoS bin installed -- To put it another way...
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:22:55 -0800 
 

We'll see if they have the kind of success at other crimes 

that they 

have had with auction fraud;  Without money involved some local 
prosecutors may be a little more shy than they have been.



Hmm, it's more like seeing somebody planning a robbery, and 
getting all the weapons and gear ready, but not knowing their 
target.  It's hard to do anything about it at that point with 
a robbery, too.


Well, getting weapons and gear can, in theory, be completely legal.
There's nothing legal about putting together a botnet, since it
involves thousands of violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse
act.  

Large ISPs should actually be able to justify prosecution of some
larger botnets, as their costs to clean them up could easily exceed
$10,000 ...
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