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新华网12月12日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道,埃里克·罗索尔是个不错的黑客,他在2011年参与了“匿名者”组织的针对科氏工业的DDoS攻击。因为这次持续仅仅1分钟的攻击,法官判决埃里克·罗索尔赔偿18.3万美元,还有2年缓刑。
就为了在电脑上运行了60秒的软件,就要罚款18.3万美元!这相当于每秒3050美元。(如果能把DDos攻击称作黑客行为的话。)这次攻击给科氏工业造成的损失到不了5000美元,但是公司说他们花了18.3万美元雇佣专家来保护他们的网站。这就是18.3万美元的来历。
听起来有点不公平,不过没人认为罗索尔做的事情是正确的。他承认犯下访问受保护的计算机的轻罪,处罚可能仅仅是象征性的,因为他访问电脑的时间还没有一条电视广告时间长。但仅仅看看这个案例你就知道,活动人士为什么说美国的黑客法太严厉了。
译者:林杉
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Participating in Anonymous DDoS Attack for One Minute = $183,000 Fine
Eric Rosol is not a big-time hacker. However, the Wisconsin man did participate in the 2011 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that Anonymous unleashed on Koch Industries—for one whole minute. And for that one minute of his life, a judge just decided, Rosol must pay a $183,000 fine.
Oh, and two years probation.
But $183,000—holy shit!—for running a piece of software on a computer for 60 whole seconds?! That amounts to $3,050 per second of very small-time hacking. (That is, if you could even call a DDoS attack a form of hacking.) By comparison, the attack supposedly cost Koch Industries less than $5,000 in damages, though the company says they spent $183,000 to hire consults to protect its websites. That\'s where the $183,000 fine figure comes from.
This feels a little unfair. Nobody\'s trying to say that what Rosol did was right. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor count of accessing a protected computer and probably expected a slap on the wrist because he accessed that computer for less than the span of a commercial break. But you don\'t need to look further than this to see why activists say that hackers laws are entirely too harsh in this country.
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