Man must repay $183,000 to Kochs after joining ‘Anonymous’ protest for one minute

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/11/man-must-repay-183000-to-kochs-after-joining-anonymous-protest-for-one-minute/



Man must repay $183,000 to Kochs after joining ‘Anonymous’ protest for one minute
By Travis Gettys
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 12:35 EST

A Wisconsin man who joined an Anonymous online protest for one minute has been sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to repay $183,000 to Koch Industries.

Eric Rosol admitted to federal prosecutors that he took part in a distributed denial-of-service attack Feb. 28, 2011, coordinated by the hacker activist group that shut down the company’s Kochind.com website for about 15 minutes.

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The DDoS attack lasted for only one minute, but Rosol was prosecuted under a 1980s law – the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – that many online activists say encourages sentences that rarely fit the crime.

Rosol’s attorney and prosecutors agreed that the company lost less than $5,000 as a result of the DDoS attack, but Koch Industries complained that it had hired a consulting firm to improve security for its websites at a cost of $183,000.

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