[AusNOG] Film industry soliciting DDOS attacks?

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Sep 10, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Vitaly Osipov wrote:

> A completely legal example - AFACT gets an authorisation to "disrupt communications", hires an IT company to build a click farm in Amazon EC2, pays for it (what is cloud computing if not an evolved botnet, anyway?), uses it to bring the site in question down.


IANAL, so I'm unsure that such an action would in fact be legal in most jurisdictions.  Oftentimes, laws and regulations conflict with one another, and things don't actually get sorted until someone is standing in the dock.

Beyond that, one wonders how the general public would react to the inevitable collateral damage arising from such an ill-advised escapade.

Finally, can anyone point to a single example of open, unabashed, officially-sanctioned DDoS attacks taking place anywhere in the world, to date?  Not the arm's-length, wink-and-nod sub rosa stuff we all know takes place, but in the public eye under color of authority?

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