rye a
The only problem, there's no course of justice for this kind of thing is there? net4u will get away scott free?
There is, actually. The magic words are "credit by fraud". The tricky part is in demonstrating that the perpetrator made a pecuniary gain at the expense of the victim. I went around this loop in '94-95 or thereabouts at Vic Uni, when a couple of little toads got into a a couple of boxes using dictionary attacks on non-shadowed (mutter mutter Ultrix mutter IRIX mutter mutter) password files, (which in turn allowed dial-up access into the Vic network) and proceeded to use the available accounts to download piles of pirate software. Getting a conviction involves solving two puzzles: demonstrating that the offending activity happened and who did it, and demonstrating that the activity caused loss. In this case, demonstrating that it happened was done through logging and phone traces. You must be able to pin the activity to a person or organisation. Loss was demonstrated by providing logs of download traffic volumes, and relating those with NZGate volume charges. It's going to be more difficult to demonstrate specific loss in a bandwidth charged environment -- it's not merely sufficient to demonstrate that bandwidth was used, but that it actually cost more money than it would have had the theft not taken place. The really hard part about all this is putting it into really small words so that police, lawyers, judges etc who don't deal with this stuff from day to day can understand. Diagrams help. -- don