EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)
Naslund, Steve
SNaslund at medline.com
Thu Jul 28 13:45:17 UTC 2016
A DDoS attack is illegal. In the United States it is considered as theft of service. The legal construct used is that the DDoS attack is a theft of CPU cycles, compute resources, and power by other than the rightful owner for its intended purposes.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:30 AM
To: Miles Fidelman
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:55:54 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
> On 7/27/16 10:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> They just lost all respect from here. Would someone from USA please
> >> report these guys to the feds? What they are doing is outright
> >> criminal.
> > hyperbole. it is not criminal. you just don't happen to like it.
>
> Actually, as someone pointed out, it might well be conspiracy - which
> is criminal.
In general, the conspiracy isn't criminal if the conspired act isn't criminal.
If you're trying to make a criminal conspiracy out of non-criminal acts, your best bet is probably finding a new way to abuse the RICO statutes.
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