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Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by jacquesm on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:58AM (#5128701)
You're making the (wrong) assumption that all those participating in a denial of service attack are doing so voluntarily. Typically it's a small number of perps that harness a large number of unwitting drones.
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Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by AnthonyMouse on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:00AM (#5128993)
OK sure, so the law should prohibit harnessing a large number of unwitting drones.

And it should prohibit DDoS in general. But not as a felony.

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Re:Why Did the Justice System Target Aaron Swartz? by glesica on Monday January 28, 2013 @03:51PM (#5130562)
Fine, then the felony should be hacking the bots, not the DDoS.
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