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Originally posted by cripmeister
reply to post by undo
That sucks, the company ripped you off
Originally posted by Aliensun
reply to post by drew1749
So, you are seemingly blaming the FBI for tracking down some suspicious internet activity to your house?
I do believe that son has some explanation to do. You give absolutely no indication that you immediately had a discussion with him about what he has done to have the law disrupt your house and life. Shouldn't you be pissed at him? 'Kept him sitting across the kitchen table from you all day explaining exactly what he did? Since you are playing dumb for us here, I suspect he pulled that same trick on you.
I'm sure he knew quite well what he was doing. A fourteen-year-old can be pretty sneaky. .But you seem to paint him as just an innocent young lad and would rather blame the law for doing their job. That an all too typical reaction from a modern parent.
I don't accept your version of the story. Evidently you (and perhaps we) will only hear the details of what he did when charges are filed. I hope you have funds for a good lawyer.
I'm an old timer. When any of my kids did something bad or wrong, there was none of that, "It's OK, honey."
Originally posted by pavil
reply to post by drew1749
Couldn't someone have "taken over" the computer remotely to do the attack on PayPal? That would be how I would do it, use a patsy for the actual attack, while keeping my tracks untraceable. Did you son let in a trojan or something that would allow others to take over your PC's.
The second scenario which I think I might be leaning towards is one that's a little more complicated. DDoS attacks are commonly used with bot nets. A bot net is formed when your computer gets a virus on it that allows a master computer to control it.
reply to post by ShadowalkerWhen your cable package goes up to $200 a month because they had to hire a battalion of security people to keep your connection safe
The point being, kids don't know computers very well.