said by TKJunkMail 
:said by footballdude :Aren't DDOS attacks illegal? If they admit doing it, shouldn't there be legal action?
had their systems set to automatically bombarded the closed tracker with 8,000 SYN packets a second
The systems weren't SET to create a DDos. That was a side affect of an attempt to reach a resource that was taken offline. Should MD been monitoring their system better? No doubt about it. But the characterization that they PLANNED a DDos is wrong.
I don't think you realize the scope of what really happened. To create that large amount of traffic one would either have to be in control of a large botnet, or have a server-farm connected to a fairly large SONET link. Regardless if it was planned or not, it is a classic case of denial of service, and considering how large and aggressive it was - it likely was planned.
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