The Strange Tale of the DOS Attacks Against GRC.COM
 

lesenswert

lol
"I determined that we had been
attacked by 474 Windows PC's."

"hi, its me, wicked, im the one nailing the server with
udp and icmp packets, nice sisco router, btw im 13, its
a new addition, nothin tracert cant handle, and ur on a
t3.....so up ur connection foo, we will just keep comin
at you, u cant stop us "script kiddies" because we are
better than you, plain and simple."

Also ich finde folgenden Teil weitaus interessanter (und erschütternd):

Both FBI guys said similar things:
They explained that until $5,000 of damage had been done, no crime had even been committed. That's the law. And due to the peculiar nature of GRC.COM's business model (such as it is :), these attacks were stirring up interest in my forthcoming research and it wasn't even clear that we were going to be economically damaged in any way.

Secondly, they said that even if we did manage to meet the $5,000 minimum required for "Wicked's" activities to qualify as criminal, their staffs were overloaded and swamped with cases involving companies that had lost huge sums of money to Internet crime. Furthermore, since the cost of an FBI prosecution was in the neighborhood of $200,000, they needed to prioritize their cases based upon prosecuting criminals who were responsible for causing large dollar losses. "Wicked's" attacks, no matter how annoying, failed to qualify.

And finally, they said that since "Wicked" was only 13 years old, nothing much would happen to him, even if the preponderance of evidence demonstrated that he was behind these attacks. They said that a couple of agents might go out to his home and have a talk with his parents, but in this country his youth was an impenetrable shield. This, of course, further discouraged the costs which would be incurred through any investigation.