What are the penalties for DDOSSING? Jail time? Prison time? A fine? Slap on the wrist?
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Depends on what is DDOS’d
But last time someone did this to blizz, they got jailed
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Decapitation.
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Last person who DDOS’d WoW got a whole year of prison time.
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The Computer Misuse Act 1990 makes it illegal to intentionally impair the operation of a computer or prevent or hinder access to a program/data on a computer unless you are authorised to do so. This means that Distributed denial of Service ( DDoS ) and similar types of attacks are criminal under UK law.
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In general, I believe it is a felony.
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Death by hanging
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On a serious note, it also depends on if Blizzard wants to charge and put time into finding this person although his twitter is public. Shouldn’t there be a way to reverse his IP and find him?
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prison. this is a federal crime
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Depends on the laws in the suspect’s homeland and the laws in the victim’s homeland.
2 shots and a splash of water as a drink of course
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Yeah but punishment is going to vary greatly depending on the circumstances.
there should be a way. he’s tweeting live about all this. plus it wont be just Blizzard. It’ll be Twitter and Wikipedia too.
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Permanent ban
Yes Rheeper I believe there is. Most of the people who do this think they can get away with it and are not as smart as they think they are.
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Leaving the teens behind temporarily, the United States handed a serious sentence to John Kelsey Gammell, a man convicted of a long campaign of DDoS attacks against a range of victims, with a former employer targeted the most heavily. Gammell has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, though some of that prison time stems from two charges of being a previously convicted felon in possession of a gun. The court stated that it would see about restitution at a later date.
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It depends on if someone finds him, before the law does.
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If Trump plays WoW then he would make a platform on the tallest building he could possibly find and sky dive noose the DDOSing piece of garbage.
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Harsh, but fair.
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I think it would qualify as interstate commerce so it would qualify as a federal crime. I don’t know that this is what is indeed happening though.