here is the audio from BBC Radio 4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11935539
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Paul Thornton <p...@prt.org> wrote: > On 08/12/2010 20:42, Jack Bates wrote: > >> Of course, it's debatable if use of LOIC is enough to convict. You'd >> have to first prove the person installed it themselves, and then you'd >> have to prove that they knew it would be used for illegal purposes. >> > > Earlier this morning there were two people interviewed on the BBC radio 4 > Today program (this is considered the BBC's flagship morning news/current > affairs show on their serious nationwide talk radio station) about this - > one was a security consultant and another was a member of/spokesman for the > 'operation payback' group. One wonders why the Met Police didn't have > someone waiting to have a quiet chat with the latter when he left the > studio. > > Both of them said that people had been voluntarily downloading and > installing botnet clients on their PCs in order to take part in these DDoS > attacks. Ignoring, for a moment, the stupidity of such action it is hard to > see how you'd be able to argue that this was *not* going to be used for > illegal purposes. > > The other amusing part of the interview was when the security consultant > started off very well explaining a DDoS in layman's terms, but then veered > off using the terms HTTP, UDP and IP in one sentence causing the presenter > to intervene as it "was getting a tad too technical there". > > Paul. > >
