RE: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

["Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>]

A DDoS attack is illegal.  In the United States it is considered as theft of service.  The legal construct used is that 
the DDoS attack is a theft of CPU cycles, compute resources, and power by other than the rightful owner for its 
intended purposes.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 4:30 AM
To: Miles Fidelman
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:55:54 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
> On 7/27/16 10:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > They just lost all respect from here. Would someone from USA please 
> > > report these guys to the feds? What they are doing is outright 
> > > criminal.
> > hyperbole.  it is not criminal.  you just don't happen to like it.
>
> Actually, as someone pointed out, it might well be conspiracy - which 
> is criminal.

In general, the conspiracy isn't criminal if the conspired act isn't criminal.
If you're trying to make a criminal conspiracy out of non-criminal acts, your best bet is probably finding a new way to 
abuse the RICO statutes.