Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) & You

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What happens when you are caught DDoSing a site, affecting a hosts income by denying service to its users?

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Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

Resource type: Glossary Item Status: Maintained Jurisdiction: USA

A federal criminal law (18 U.S.C. ? 1030) that makes unlawful certain computer-related activities involving the unauthorized access of:

  • Any computer to obtain certain types of prohibited information.
  • A protected computer, defined by the statute to include a computer:
    used by or for the federal government or a financial institution; or
    used in interstate or foreign commerce or communication.

Specifically, the CFAA prohibits:

Knowingly accessing a computer without authorization to obtain national security or other government-restricted data.

Intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain certain information from:

a financial institution or consumer reporting agency;
the federal government; or
a protected computer.

Intentionally accessing and affecting the use of a government computer.

Knowingly accessing a protected computer to defraud and obtain anything of value.
Causing damages specified in the statute by knowingly transmitting harmful items or intentionally accessing a protected computer.

Knowingly trafficking in computer passwords.

Extortion involving threats to damage a protected computer.

CFAA

Sentencing under CFAA is a bitch, depending upon the 'level' of the offense, as ruled by a judge, the sentences can range from >5 years to life. Right now it's a bit extreme, but when you are being attacked, it feels just I imagine.

"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

CFAA Sentencing
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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?


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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes


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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes

What. The. Fuck. Man.


 
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Hmm...
"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.


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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.

This law was the leading factor in Aaron Swartz's suicide, he was looking down the barrel of this law and couldn't handle it. Federal conviction rate is 90+%


 
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Hmm...
"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.

This law was the leading factor in Aaron Swartz's suicide, he was looking down the barrel of this law and couldn't handle it. Federal conviction rate is 90+%
Good news for if we can actually catch this guy/guys/whatever. I would pay cash money to sit in on his trial for attacking this forum.

Actually, I would probably have to show up anyway :o.


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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.

This law was the leading factor in Aaron Swartz's suicide, he was looking down the barrel of this law and couldn't handle it. Federal conviction rate is 90+%
Good news for if we can actually catch this guy/guys/whatever. I would pay cash money to sit in on his trial for attacking this forum.

Actually, I would probably have to show up anyway :o.

pls stream as Rose gets a three year prison sentence.


 
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Hmm...
"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.

This law was the leading factor in Aaron Swartz's suicide, he was looking down the barrel of this law and couldn't handle it. Federal conviction rate is 90+%
Good news for if we can actually catch this guy/guys/whatever. I would pay cash money to sit in on his trial for attacking this forum.

Actually, I would probably have to show up anyway :o.

pls stream as Rose gets a three year prison sentence.
And then have the gif as an obligatory avatar for everyone.


 
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"For example Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison for exposing a security hole on AT&T's servers that publicly revealed iPad users' email addresses. The court ruled that the "loss" to AT&T in his case was $73,000"

Lolwot? "Hey guys don't use this companies internet because at the moment all Ipad users emails are publicly shown" = 41 months in prison. Did I just read that right or did he "show" them their error by hacking/etc. them?

Actually, yes
Sounds like a less-crazy version of Live Free or Die Hard.

This law was the leading factor in Aaron Swartz's suicide, he was looking down the barrel of this law and couldn't handle it. Federal conviction rate is 90+%
Good news for if we can actually catch this guy/guys/whatever. I would pay cash money to sit in on his trial for attacking this forum.

Actually, I would probably have to show up anyway :o.

pls stream as Rose gets a three year prison sentence.
And then have the gif as an obligatory avatar for everyone.
I would pay real money to watch Rose get put in prison.


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What happens when the offender is outside the jurisdiction of the US?

After all the legislation you provided is I fact US legislation...

Let's say Rose lives in another country. Do you think his host country would extradite him to the US for prosecution for a DDoS attack on this site?

No.


You children amuse me.


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What happens when the offender is outside the jurisdiction of the US?

After all the legislation you provided is I fact US legislation...

Let's say Rose lives in another country. Do you think his host country would extradite him to the US for prosecution for a DDoS attack on this site?

No.


You children amuse me.

Depends on the country, and who's a child  to you again?


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Everyone who is 29 or under is a child.


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Rose is still waiting for the FBI cyber crimes division to kick in his door, sentence him to minimum 3 years jail, and then you guys make a .gif about it.


Ah, the imagination of children!


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Rose is still waiting for the FBI cyber crimes division to kick in his door, sentence him to minimum 3 years jail, and then you guys make a .gif about it.


Ah, the imagination of children!

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Eric Rosol was caught by federal authorities participating in a DDoS attack on a company owned by Koch Industry; for knocking a website offline for 15 minutes, Rosol got two years of probation and had to pay $183,000 in restitution (the amount Koch paid to a security consultant to protect its website ater the attack)."

http://beta.slashdot.org/story/195157


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Well one of my terms was that you recognised that I am not Rose.

You failed to meet such terms and continue to think Rose is somehow behind the DDoS attack.

Mine of the other mistakes is believing US jurisdiction extends beyond that of its own borders in relation to DDoS attack. It would require a federal investigation and international cooperation in order for your little fantasy to ever occur.

And frankly I don't think any federal prosecutors would waste their time. But tell your little friend to keep on sending reports blaming "Rose" for the DDoS attack.

It highly amuses me.


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Well one of my terms was that you recognised that I am not Rose.

You failed to meet such terms and continue to think Rose is somehow behind the DDoS attack.

Mine of the other mistakes is believing US jurisdiction extends beyond that of its own borders in relation to DDoS attack. It would require a federal investigation and international cooperation in order for your little fantasy to ever occur.

And frankly I don't think any federal prosecutors would waste their time. But tell your little friend to keep on sending reports blaming "Rose" for the DDoS attack.

It highly amuses me.

I don't care who you are, or are not; and we don't know who was behind the attack yet. Carry on trolling in ignorance.

Any reports that will be sent will contain pertinent technical data, and nothing more. Speculation as to whom was behind the keyboard is not for me to worry about.
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Pertinent technical data will be fruitless or false of things such as TOR was used to access via the Deep Web.


Food for thought.


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Pertinent technical data will be fruitless or false of things such as TOR was used to access via the Deep Web.


Food for thought.

uh huh

Not that it's necessary to explain this to you, but unless a person using tor is behind a private exit node it is perfectly possible to trace back a user's origin through public nodes.
Last Edit: August 04, 2014, 08:46:49 AM by Crouton


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Yes but would a person/persons who are/were willing to carry out DDoS attacks be stupid enough to leave a path of breadcrumbs for you to trace that easy?


I mean that is just amateur.


It's like robbing a jewellery store with no gloves or mask.


I still can't believe you were going to blame "Rose".


A word from the wise is that you begin to differentiate "Rose" from other people. You simple minded creatures seem to get confused a lot.


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Yes but would a person/persons who are/were willing to carry out DDoS attacks be stupid enough to leave a path of breadcrumbs for you to trace that easy?


I mean that is just amateur.


It's like robbing a jewellery store with no gloves or mask.


I still can't believe you were going to blame "Rose".


A word from the wise is that you begin to differentiate "Rose" from other people. You simple minded creatures seem to get confused a lot.

Yeah. you have a point there, I'm sure whomever decided it was a good use of their time to DDoS some random forum was tactically sound in covering their tracks.

Again, don't know who 'Rose' is, don't care, I will tell you that due diligence will be done because I don't like cocky assholes who think they run shit, but in reality any kid can use LOIC. Time will tell how diligent they really were.

Also, whomever this Rose person is, I'm sure they appreciate you being on their nuts harder than crabs.
Last Edit: August 04, 2014, 08:58:36 AM by Crouton


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I'm Rose's evil doppelg?nger.

I don't know who they are either by people accuse me of being whoever they are.

They attacked your site for a reason. Someone burnt them. Look for someone recently removed from the site.


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I'm Rose's evil doppelg?nger.

I don't know who they are either by people accuse me of being whoever they are.

They attacked your site for a reason. Someone burnt them. Look for someone recently removed from the site.

Didn't think of that!


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I'm Rose's evil doppelg?nger.

I don't know who they are either by people accuse me of being whoever they are.

They attacked your site for a reason. Someone burnt them. Look for someone recently removed from the site.

Didn't think of that!

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