Two Europeans Indicted In US For 2003 DDOS Attacks 93
narramissic writes "In a continuation of the first successful U.S. investigation ever into DDOS attacks, Axel Gembe, 25, of Germany and Lee Graham Walker, 24, of England were indicted Thursday by a grand jury in Los Angeles, California, on one count of conspiracy and one count of intentionally damaging a computer system. The two men were allegedly hired by Jay R. Echouafni, owner of Orbit Communication, a Massachusetts-based company that sold home satellite systems, to carry out DDOS attacks against two of Orbit's competitors."
Re:Tax Dollars (Score:2, Interesting)
Perhaps it wasn't that easy to figure out the real $ource of the attack. --I am very curious as to what may happen to Orbit though.
Revoke (Score:5, Interesting)
This seems like a good time to consider revoking Orbit Communications' corporate charter.
Re:Technicality (Score:5, Interesting)
The server was subjected to intentional unusual activities that caused a loss of business services. Is it actual physical damage? I'm not sure. I don't know what the legal definition the law is using.
Either way, they caused business loss using non-legal practices. "Physical" damage or not, they should have know this would've been the recourse.
One of my old co-workers decided to delete all the accounts on our Lotus server in China before he left (no, he wasn't trying to do us any favors either) the company. Sure, the "repair" was to reload the database from backup but that constituted damage under national and international law. He got nailed to the wall for it.
Software can damage hardware (Score:3, Interesting)
It really depends on the type of hardware involved.
One example - Limited write memory can be intensely overwritten until it's worn out and rendered useless, resulting in financial loss.
I don't know if it has anything to do with this case, or if any damage actually occurred.
Just speaking in terms of technicalities.
Re:Extradition from the UK to US (Score:2, Interesting)
"The last executions took place in 1977"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_France [wikipedia.org]
I think that's a good place to start.
Of course that depends if you consider killing peeople 'civilized'.