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Face of Mankind DoS teen perp reprimanded

Peter Leech

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What a twit.

The worst bit is that he's doing computer studies. If this is the quality of the people taking the courses then no wonder the recruitment bods are always going on about a "skills crisis".

Jason Togneri

Ummm.... 

Alert

He didn't even use a basic IP anonymiser?

"Pretty stupid" indeed!

Anonymous Coward

One IP address... 

...managed to generate enough SYNs data to take down the server? Why didn't they just block it?

Bad Pritt

Why did they hire an outside firm? 

Most webmasters could have busted him quite easily seeing how "invisible mode" was his only attempt at anonymity.

bluesxman

@ Peter Leech 

Coat

Have you worked in IT recently? There's morons all over the shop!

Ash

Fire the SysAdmin 

Why in the blue shit didn't he forward all traffic from that IP down the toilet?

Guy isn't fit for changing toners...

Anonymous Coward

Ojom - useless company 

The guy used one IP and you still had to hire an outside company when you could have simply blocked or forwarded the fake packets somewhere else... useless company... no wonder why the game ceases to exist now...