A DDoS attack is illegal. In the United States it is considered as theft of service. The legal construct used is that the DDoS attack is a theft of CPU cycles, compute resources, and power by other than the rightful owner for its intended purposes.
Steven Naslund Chicago IL -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:30 AM To: Miles Fidelman Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare) On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:55:54 -0400, Miles Fidelman said: > On 7/27/16 10:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > >> They just lost all respect from here. Would someone from USA please > >> report these guys to the feds? What they are doing is outright > >> criminal. > > hyperbole. it is not criminal. you just don't happen to like it. > > Actually, as someone pointed out, it might well be conspiracy - which > is criminal. In general, the conspiracy isn't criminal if the conspired act isn't criminal. If you're trying to make a criminal conspiracy out of non-criminal acts, your best bet is probably finding a new way to abuse the RICO statutes.
