Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz?

Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by cbs on Monday January 28, 2013 @07:44AM (#5128257)

Its not 1:1, but while its people coordinating its pretty easy to draw the comparison, only when its done by a botnet wrangler or extortionists do things start to diverge.

You just don't see the equivalence because operating on the internet you only see your susceptibility to a ddos, and it's always different when it can happen to you.

It's a nuisance you deal with until the protesting party gets board. In one case you call the cops, in the other case you pay someone with a fat pipe to absorb the hit and forward the legit traffic to you.

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Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by CJefferson on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:03AM (#5128308)

I am unaware of any successful DDOS (other than accidental ones) which food not make some use of unsuspecting people's computers, either by ping reflection, botnets or secret iframes. All of these sound less like a sit-in and more like an attack which should be prosecuted to me.

I am happy to hear of counterexample.

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Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by bad_user on Monday January 28, 2013 @08:49AM (#5128445)

How many successful DDOS attacks do you know about and how can you find out if the participating nodes are part of a botnet or use iframes?

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