Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

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jfruh writes “One of the most potent aspects of Anonymous is, well, its anonymity — but that isn’t absolute. Eric Rosol was caught by federal authorities participating in a DDoS attack on a company owned by Koch Industry; for knocking a website offline for 15 minutes, Rosol got two years of probation and had to pay $183, 000 in restitution (the amount Koch paid to a security consultant to protect its website ater the attack).” The worst part? From the article: “Eric J. Rosol, 38, is said to have admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service attack for about a minute on a Web page of Koch Industries…” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute

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