How A Telescope Forum Feud Ended With Prison Time

[Buster]

HaHa FBI question:

“How are you guys getting banned from an astronomy site?” wondered the FBI agent who arrived to question him. “Is there a debate on a tenth planet or something?”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18131024/ddos-attack-telescope-forum-cfaa-prison

 

[Willie99]

Haha, that funny, that's today's world

 

[niltes]

sounds like an episode from "the big bang theory"

 

[alebasch7]

It sounds different depending on the circumstances. but if there really was a DDoS attack, it is not a pleasant and frequent phenomenon now. So many people and companies are connected to the cloud these days. Now imagine all the sensitive information stored in the cloud, if it fell into the wrong hands, what would the result be?
You will never be able to tell the difference between legitimate user traffic and attack traffic distributed across multiple points of origin. That's why it's important to know how to detect a DDoS attack. And it is even more important to know and know how to defend against it. https://hacken.io/education/how-to-detect-a-ddos-attack/