Hackers jailed

[Angua]

Originally Posted by etccarmageddon

I think lots of community service, a large fine each and banned from using the internet for 2 years would have been a better sentence. Prison isn't going to do them good as I think they were stupid rather than hardened criminals. perhaps they could have been sentenced to community service educatating kids on computing.

Better they educated the older persons (silver surfers they call themselves locally). Children have access to computers from pre-school age!

[Chrysalis]

They done some kind of damage it just wasnt found out. If you had a trojan on your pc doing a denial of service attack all you would notice is probably your internet running a bit slowly.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

They done some kind of damage it just wasnt found out. If you had a trojan on your pc doing a denial of service attack all you would notice is probably your internet running a bit slowly.

If it wasnt found out how do you know?

The court admitted they did little, I'd imagine beyond infecting a machine nothing was done. Had they carried out a Denial of service I'd imagine the Yanks would have known after all it was them that traced these guys.

I think they were both incredibly stupid for what they have done, but I STRONGLY disagree with their Jail sentences.

[Chrysalis]

Reason for my conclusion is you dont infect thousands of machines for no reason, there are distrubuted denial of service war's going on all the time between packet kiddies (mainly on irc networks) and as it was concluded they wasnt doing it for commercial reasons I am assuming they were involved in DDOS attacks.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Reason for my conclusion is you dont infect thousands of machines for no reason, there are distrubuted denial of service war's going on all the time between packet kiddies (mainly on irc networks) and as it was concluded they wasnt doing it for commercial reasons I am assuming they were involved in DDOS attacks.

Or as I am sure, they wanted to see if it worked, if they could write a trojan, and simply logged onto several machines and did nothing.

Simply put its like owning a shotgun, you can use it, but you dont have to kill with it.

[patrickp]

And there are considerable bragging rights involved.

[Chrysalis]

Well having witnessed and help shut down various botnet's caused by similiar trojans I have never seen a botnet owner just have the bots for bragging rights, why take the risk just to say I done this?

[patrickp]

Well, it seems accepted by the authorities that they _didn't_ take advantage of of their activities, so why did they do it?