Trial set for 'botnet for hire' duo
A federal judge has cleared the way for the trial of two men accused of waging a cyber attack on a webhosting company so they could demonstrate the effectiveness of their botnet to potential customers. The trial of Thomas James Frederick Smith, 21, most recently of Parris Island, South Carolina, and David Anthony Edwards, 20, of …
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Posted Wednesday 16th September 2009 09:58 GMT
The sentence should be easy #
They should get one year per infected computer.
22,000 years in prison seems perfectly fair for low life scum like this.
Posted Wednesday 16th September 2009 10:53 GMT
I donated US$22000 #
to their legal defence fund, as requested in their email.
I do hope they - (ahem) - 'appreciate' it.
Posted Wednesday 16th September 2009 12:11 GMT
Hurrah for the botnets. #
I couldn't give a distributed denial of service what you think
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