Recently a teen from Idaho thought, for some reason, it would be a great idea to pay a third party to organize multiple DDoS attacks upon the local school district causing major web issues for the school.
Not only did the staff have problems getting into their websites, but many students who were taking important yearly test either had their test erased or their scores erased so they needed to take the test again which is just cruel and unusual punishment. The teen was eventually tracked down through some investigation that lead to his IP address being found leading back to him.
It's a crazy time we live in where some kid who can't even live on his own has the know-how and wear-with-all to pull off something like this. He did get caught, but it's pretty brazen of him to pull a thing like this off. Most kids these days don't even need someone else to do this, they can do it themselves most of the time because they have grown up with computers and have somehow picked up programming along the way. Kids just need to get out more and play like we used to when times were more simple and school test were on Scantrons, can't erase those with a DDoS attack!
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