A Canton, OH teenager is behind bars because he encouraged his fellow classmates to refresh the high school's website in hopes that it would overload the server. He did not use any software, or bots, to carry out the "attack." School officials said the student could have done a "tremendous" amount of damage. Apparently causing essentially a "busy signal" for the school's website for a couple hours is considered "tremendous damage" these days. They also said "(he) thought it was a joke. We showed him how we deal with this kind of joke." Prosecutors who seek cases like this should be thrown out of office for wasting public money. This DA is clearly oblivious to the workings of the internet, and seems to think pursuing this case is going to somehow put a feather in his cap. The funny thing is, now that this case has been publicized worldwide, both the school website, located here, and the DA's website, located here, have had trouble staying online due to increased traffic, most of it coming from websites covering the story, such as Slashdot. I guess the DA in this case thought prosecuting a teenager for hitting the F5 button was a joke. We'll show him how we deal with jokes like this.
cantonrep.com