Thinking of Hiring or Running a Booter Service? Think Again.
Summary: John Dobbs, a 32-year-old computer science graduate student in Honolulu, ran the DDoS-for-hire service IPStresser.com under his real name and address until the Justice Department seized the site in December 2022 and charged him with one count of aiding and abetting computer intrusions. Prosecutors say the service drew more than two million registered users and launched 30 million distinct DDoS attacks, and Dobbs pleaded not guilty on January 4.
What's compelling: Dobbs told KrebsOnSecurity in 2020 that a customer digital signature and terms of use insulated him from liability, a theory Unit 221B's Allison Nixon rejects outright: there is no Terms of Service that makes a DDoS-for-hire site legal, and booter operators facing arrest hand over customer logs as leverage.
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