What a pathetic article. It claims to confront a question on a lot of people's minds ("Would the US government charge you with computer lawbreaking if you attack only Russian targets") but then just lists some computer laws and says "here are some laws that exist".
I thought about this early on when DDOS against russia were being promoted here on HN. Projecting DDOS across continents isn't practical. The entire idea is pointless, Oceanic cables are all going to have IPS running to better utilize them. They are a highly utilized precious resource. Later on, Russia released the IPs of ddos attackers and they were all from their neighbours. No attacks really came from the USA.
> 4. Morality and ethics? You are clearly in the wrong here. Don't try to add to the problem. You don't end a war by adding to it.
Precisely. Especially telling less technical people / followers of that YouTuber to put themselves at risk of running a program that they don't know what it does and instead attacks them instead of the intended target and also gets themselves de-anonymised and caught by the authorities.
It is indeed a pointless endeavour that gets them no where.
Russia is an enemy of the people who make YouTube censorship decisions and also the people currently in charge of the enforcing of the laws, so it's probably fine.
