Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:27:39PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
If he's living in Oregon, stop dicking around with us, call the FBI and your local police. It's a federal crime, and if he's in the US, they'll go get him...
Wouldn't it be pretty to think so.
Some pretty high-profile sites have tried this approach to DOS attacks in the past, I'm told. Not much came of it, except that some people got to be laughed at by Special Agents on the phone.
In general, unless there are at least 6 digits in the amount of money someone's stealing from you, and preferably 7, the FBI hasn't proven to be really interested.
Maybe someone should call Scott Bakula, instead.
Cheers, -- jra
This is more accurate. We had one of these trolls/phisers break into a border server here at Solera Networks last year with an older Linux version from Hungry and they hijacked the server and used it to "harvest" over 300,000 credit card and bank account passwords/numbers from the Federal Credit Union. An FBI agent showed up and took the hard drive, then returned it a month later and told us "we cannot go after people in Hungary, but thanks for the hard drive so we could find out whose accounts were stolen and can refund their money."
They will do NOTHING unless you have a dead nun laying on the floor of your data center with a least four stab wounds and 7 digits stolen from her.
Jeff