Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS 133
An anonymous reader writes "NBC News reports that, during a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV, GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group bragged about using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against members of Anonymous during an operation called Rolling Thunder in 2011 (there is evidence that says it was a SYN flood, so technically it was a simple DoS attack). Regular citizens would face 10 years in prison and enormous fines for committing a DoS / DDoS attack. The same applies if they encouraged or assisted in one. But if you work in the government, it seems like you're an exception to the rule."
reality check (Score:0, Interesting)
if you're a private citizen, and you get denies service... isn't that more of an inconvenience? it's not really costing individuals millions of dollars or setting them back. if my connection had been attacked, it would be hard to tell if I was being attacked or if my internet connection was on the fritz. really, it's kind of a waste of tax payer money they're bragging about. stupid.
Re:In defense of GCHQ... (Score:5, Interesting)