Dutch boy arrested for WikiLeaks-related DDoS attacks on Mastercard and PayPal

Naked Security ^ | 12/8/2010 | Naked Security

[alancarp]

There’s probably a ‘finger in the dike’ joke here, but anybody supporting those responsible for these leaks — and the likely deaths of our people/sources by extension — should be strung up together... so I’m not exactly in a joking mood here.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Curse the Dutch and their bowl cuts!!

[longfellow]

this kid should have a wooden shoe up his ass.

[ColdOne]

this kid should have a wooden shoe up his ass. LMAO!!!

[Hoodat]

[texmexis best]

I see we have some people to refill the cells at Gitmo. It has become a bit thinly populated now that we are releasing terrorists so that they ply their terrorist trade again.

[Dallas59]

Hee Hee!

[Dacula]

Pretty darn quick to find a suspect. All of this wiki-assange ‘leaks’ is nothing more than a flushing out of those who disagree.

[tacticalogic]

Seize his computers and personal records, subpoena all the logs at his ISP related to his account and his phone records, and then post all of it and the content of his hard drives on the internet and let his victims start sorting it and seeing who and where it leads to.

[oh8eleven]

Dutch boy arrested for WikiLeaks-related DDoS attacks ...
Fooling around w/ your computer again?

[apastron]

...being interrogated by detectives from the Dutch National High-Tech Crime Team

Is this the same bunch that solved the Natalie Holloway murder?

[Dallas59]

That would be invasion of privacy!/s

[bigbob]

that boy is gonna be in dutch

[tacticalogic]

That would be invasion of privacy!/s

It's all about the free exchange of information, right? Isn't "privacy" just a code word for trying to control and deny the rest of the world access to information?

[Venturer]

Waterboard time.

[NurdlyPeon]

Put him in prison for a few days of “cornhole persuasion”. Let him know what it's going to like for the next few years of his life. I'm sure he'll start cooperating real fast.

[pointsal]

please define “dike”

[alancarp]

see post 6 for pictures.

[krogers58]

It will be possible to eventually find out who most of these script kiddies are, and to be able to prosecute them. Router logs will lead right to where they are. Aside from the illegality, I wouldn’t want the legal department from Visa or Mastercard figuring out how they’re going to spend my earnings for the next 30 years. The civil liability will be horrendous for those they catch and decide to sue.