Demonstration of a botnet before selling: which site would you like to lay down?

Curious details about the cybercrime backstage surfaced in a criminal case that the federal court in Dallas, Texas, had just finished considering. Local hacker David Edwards (David Anthony Edwards) was sentenced to a criminal sentence of up to five years and a fine of $ 250,000 for the creation of a bottic Nettick.

A botnet of 22,000 computers was created in 2006 exclusively for sale, it didn’t do any harm to anyone, did not participate in the distribution of malware and in DDoS attacks. Edwards controlled the system through the IRC channel at http://kidindustries.net/~dave/ and was actively looking for a buyer to whom he could give his login and password, as well as source codes. In the end, the search yielded results: the parties agreed on a price of $ 3,000, but the buyer demanded a demonstration of the goods before payment.

On August 14, 2006, Edwards "slanted" the botnet on one of the servers of the American provider The Planet, which was successfully knocked down. After which the deal took place and he received a deserved $ 3,000. However, subsequently this incident became the basis for the institution of a criminal case.