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The Courtroom: Ohio High School Student charged Felony for 'F5' Refresh |
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The school noted their servers were slowing down and research showed up this web page as the culprit.
The school's website is currently down:
http://lake.stark.k12.oh.us/
But a handy Google cache reveals the content:
cache link
The Canton City Prosecutor, Frank Forchione had this to say about this incident, and a different one in 2005:
"“This new technology has created a whole wave of crimes, and we’re just trying to find ways to solve them,” Forchione said."
I'm not sure where Mr. Forchione has been but certainly this is not a new technology. And that is one broad stroke of the brush as its being applied to high school students.
On first note it doesn't sound like the F5 would cause more harm than a bot army would, however, as noted in a reply at SecurityFocus by Adrian Sanabria:
Indeed, I have seen an entire enterprise get blocked by google, because someone trapped the F5 key with their under-desk
keyboard tray, and then went off to a meeting.
Everyone in the company started getting messages to the effect of: "Sorry, you can't use Google now, because something on your
network is trying to DOS us. Thanks for understanding."
Clearly it can have devastating effects on servers. In using most services on the web these days, there are things called 'Acceptable Use Policies' or 'Terms of Service' that specify what is permitted. Does the school have a TOS, and did the student knowingly act against those policies? Something certainly for the court to decide.
Our legal system looks at a suspects intent, and in this case Stone made it known:
"hold down F5 to help crash my school server"
There are no positive contributions to the world there. But a felony?
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