Suppose a denialofservice attack shuts down two dozen major

Suppose a denial-of-service attack shuts down two dozen major websites, including retailers, stock, brokerages, and large corporate entertainment and information sites, for several hours. The attack is traced to one off the following perpetrators. Do you think different penalties are appropriate, dependent on which it is? Explain why. If you would impose different penalties, how would they differ? a. A foreign terrorist who launched the attack to cause billions of dollars in damage to the U.S. economy. b. An organization publicizing its opposition to commercialization of the Web and corporate economy. c. A teenager using hacking tools he found on a website. d. A hacker group showing off to another hacker group about how many sites it could take down in one day.

Solution

No. The penalty should be same. It should not differ. Crime committed is a crime. It should not be differed based on popularity/age/nationality. Because the websites which they have hacked are the backbone of a nation\'s economy.

we can penalize based on the sensitivity of the target that hackers attacked.

Say, for example

1. Military, Economy, Banking, Govt. Organizations Etc. Attacks on these kind of servers should be considered severily and punished with out any discrimination.

2. Attack on Private Business Firms should be treated in the terms according to the Firms

You should differentiate like this.