zentex wrote:i have to disagree with you on this:
one: not many of these dodgy blog hosts have a decent defence system against DoS attacks...and really, you think ISP's or governments will defend a pirate website when they go crying for help?
second: you can use
Tor or other Onion Routing systems to hide your IP address, quite easy to do these days.
third: you're absolutely right...
the bottom line here is though, attacking these pirate blogs will hardly get you in trouble, as these blogs are breaking the law themselves...there's nobody for them to complain, right? (exept maybe the russian mobster hitmen who'll come and break your legs...)
If someone is tech savvy enough to set up an apache webserver and operate web hosting services then they probably wouldn't have much trouble installing some protection like mod_security. It doesn't take a genius to get it going.
http://www.modsecurity.org
About the chances of law enforcement coming after you...
I think it is a mistake to think you will not be prosecuted just because the people you are working against are themselves breaking the law in your own country. Especially when they may not be doing so in their own.
If you think that the authorities will not come after you because you are attacking music pirate then you are making an assumption that fits nicely into your own world view. That seems like a logical fallacy and dangerous. The organization mandated to seek out and prosecute malicious computer acts is probably not mandated with copyright enforcement. Regardless, a violation is a violation. That is the perspective of law enforcement.
I look at like this... if you live in a country that is willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to have you arrested, bring you to court, keep you in jail and then report to a probation officer for a year or two, all over a few grams of weed, then assuming they will not come after you for cyber-crime is just not smart.
Unless you are some kinda cyber ninja who can make logs disappear in smoke and appear to be coming from 3000 IPs at once then its probably best not to dabble.
To me is seems like unnecessary exposure. A free pass for the authorities to fck with you. Maybe they already don't like you for your politics or perhaps they are already watching you for drugs or other activities. Or maybe you are just another easy conviction under the belt of some go-getter looking to make a name for himself, out to boost his department's statistics for the next quarterly review... Or maybe I am just paranoid! Who knows....