Comment Re:Possible Precident (Score 1) 965
Based on your definition here and the information I have on this case so far, I see no precidence or crime. How do *we* know what his intentions were?
Secondly, he didn't perform the act of disabling or harming the network or computers. How could he? All he *might* have done is persuaded people to do something. Since when was social engineering illegal? Even if he had refreshed his screen his refresh alone did not bring down the network. Furthermore, if the the network
or server was misconfigured in any way then how could one not argue that it wasn't the refreshes of web clients (which is a perfectly normal function for web browsers) is what caused the server to purportefly go offline? Additionally, how many people were "incited" in performing this "act of heinousness", anyway? I can see him persuading a classroom of people
or perhaps a small mass (50 people) to do this but a properly configured network and server should be able to handle any amount of traffic from this small of a group even if the refreshes happened many times and quickly.
I don't buy it. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Secondly, he didn't perform the act of disabling or harming the network or computers. How could he? All he *might* have done is persuaded people to do something. Since when was social engineering illegal? Even if he had refreshed his screen his refresh alone did not bring down the network. Furthermore, if the the network
or server was misconfigured in any way then how could one not argue that it wasn't the refreshes of web clients (which is a perfectly normal function for web browsers) is what caused the server to purportefly go offline? Additionally, how many people were "incited" in performing this "act of heinousness", anyway? I can see him persuading a classroom of people
or perhaps a small mass (50 people) to do this but a properly configured network and server should be able to handle any amount of traffic from this small of a group even if the refreshes happened many times and quickly.
I don't buy it. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
