Student arrested for deadly F5 attack
Today's "idiot's in authority" post comes from Akron, OH. Yes folks, these people are actually charging this young whipper-snapper with a FELONY for allegedly creating a website that linked to his school, and directing people to hit the F5 button. For those of you Mac heads here, F5 on a PC is the refresh button on the browser. Wow, I never knew refreshing a browser would cause catastrophic harm to a schools computer system! Gimme a break. What morons. This is the problem with judges, law enforcement, and other idiots in authority that don't know anything about technology. This is just as bad as what happened to Kevin Mitnick. Due to these people's lack of understanding of technology and how systems work, they are wrongfully prosecuting someone for what amounts to the same as TP'ing someone's house on Halloween. This isn't exactly the equivalent of launching a DOS attack folks. All this can do is bring the web server to a crawl. And I got news for ya, if the school's entire system is tied in to the web server and they don't have a separate pipe for that server, then the moron that should be prosecuted is the "IT guy" for the school or district.
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Student arrested for deadly F5 attack:
Lake County High school senior has been charged for linking to his school website (http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/hs) and telling people to hit F5 multiple times, No word about survivors.
