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Mike Miller wrote:
But what is the legal principle here? If the kid is trying to attack
his school's computer, and he has a way of doing it, and the school
claims that it was partly successful (they may be wrong), are we
supposed to let him off the hook because of his weak technical skills?
I suppose if we apprehended terrorists working on a nuclear bomb, and a
technical expert reviewed their work and concluded that their plans were
rather poor and could never have resulted in a working H bomb, we should
let them go and apologize for inconveniencing them.
You really want to set a precedent that refreshing a web page is an
attack? My life would be hell if carfax.com got DDoS'd (until we got the
culprits blocked), but not even I'm willing to go that far. At that
point sites like Slashdot and Digg could be liable for all sorts of
civil action, and I don't see that as acceptable.
Rick
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