On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jack Bates <jba...@brightok.net> wrote: > > > On 12/8/2010 11:28 AM, William McCall wrote: > >> >> Are you prepared for "informaton terrorism" laws? >> > > > DOS attacks are already illegal. I question the ability to track responsible > parties down and have appropriate proof to actually prosecute. > > Let's be honest. Even in the 20th century, more people had been caught by > bragging in public than by backtracking.
so... the loic tool uses the host's local address, the attacks are all HTTP based, or tcp/80 with malformed HTTP... someone with server logs could certainly get a list of the ips involved and hand that over to the FBI for proper action. I know that the folks involved on the MC side already have this data, and that the fbi is interested in it. -chris