London teen charged over Spamhaus mega-DDoS attacks An unnamed London teenager has been charged with a series of criminal offences following a series of denial-of-service attacks against internet exchanges and the Spamhaus anti-spam service last year. The 17-year-old male from London was charged on Friday and faces computer misuse, fraud and money-laundering offences at a …
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".... There is no money here, STOPhaus are 100% volunteer efforts....." The implication is the systems and other evidence the Police seized include enough proof of other criminal activities, including money laundering, to charge him with that crime as well.
".....Ignorant people shouldn't vote or comment." Petard moment?
Or even 56K modem with a rather dodgy phone line, then he'd have to listen to the annoying "boing boing" and cross fingers that it actually connected this time before mysteriously dropping after 20 mins...! :)
(I know only one of the 56K systems did the noises, but just make sure it's that one).
The stupid kid has wrecked his future. A criminal record for dishonesty isn't the sort of thing that's going to get him employed or even funded for his own legit business, should that be his chosen path.
Helping a bunch of crooks to organise DDoS attacks isn't even in the big league. It's just the 21st C equivalent of a two bit petty criminal.
Helping a bunch of crooks to organise DDoS attacks isn't even in the big league. It's just the 21st C equivalent of a two bit petty criminal.
To me it's sort of like Val Resnick in the film Ransom. Occasionally hangs out and interacts with the big boys, thinks he's one of them but is actually just a squirmy little worm with an over-inflated self-worth.
"..... Please support your allegations that the attackers were "crooks" without using the DDoS as the offense." Maybe the fact the coppers found enough evidence to also charge him with money laundering? Not at all sorry if this was one of your skiddie buddies, he shouldn't have played with fire, I just suggest you learn from his lesson.
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