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in thread Can your site handle this?

this is about 75% curiousity and (I hope) not more than 10% sniping
but...

This reply conveys very little which wasn't in the OP; certainly, nothing of substance about why one should expect "a whole heck of a lot of trouble, and potentially face up to 10 years in prison"?

Yes, running that many workers against a single URL would be impolite in the extreme and could, perhaps, be construed as a DOS attack, but is that your reason? And if so, under the laws of which country?

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Re^4: Can your site handle this? [SILLY wwABBIT]
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2011 at 20:16 UTC

    If there's one thing we've learned from Logicus'(simon) online history and admission on this site (though, unspurprisingly, he insists he was a victim) it's that he knows about DOS attacks. So I would trust him on this issue.

    Oh, almost forgot, why the F*** did you approve yet another one of his trolls?

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      I make no claim to victim-hood in the matter.
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Re^4: Can your site handle this?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2011 at 20:50 UTC
    under the laws of which country?

    Wink wink, I would not recommend trying it from inside the UK or USA.

    As for how one can get in trouble, I'll leave that up to the imagination of anyone foolish enough to contemplate trying it. Suffice to say I hope for their sake if they do that the sysop of the system is incompetent, or that they use it from an untraceable location.

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      I think the law concerning the subject is mostly aimed at restraining corporations from dossing each other, because they would if they could.
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        Or that you don't have a nasty surprise while walking home through a dark alleyway because someone found out where you live, having logged your IP...

        What you definitely want the law to protect you from is hearing the words "Mr. xy is very unhappy what you did with his webshop." before someone is beating you up ;-)

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