Two years after Anon “Kochblock,” Wisconsin man charged with DDoS

Two years after Anon “Kochblock,” Wisconsin man charged with DDoS:

Not so lulzy anymore.

Aurich Lawson

Two years ago, a few of the minds within the hacker collective Anonymous had a bright idea—to "Kochblock" the conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, who own a list of companies longer than a roll of Angel Soft toilet paper (a brand which they also own). Anonymous decided that the attack would take some of the Koch brothers' sites offline, so it asked the hivemind to flood Koch sites with traffic.
The hivemind did so—but failed to down Angel Soft. The main Koch Industries site in Wichita, Kansas did buckle, however. "Keep it up, boys and kids! LAZERS TO 146.209.131.43 kochind.com is down and sinking further! Keep it up!" read one IRC post in the #OpWisconsin channel Anons used to coordinate the attack—a channel the FBI appears to have been watching. The attacks on Koch were in large part due to the brothers' support for embattled Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at the time.
Fast forward to yesterday, when the US Attorney for Kansas, Barry Grissom, announced that his office has brought federal charges against Eric Rosol, a 37-year old Wisconsin man from the town of Black Creek. From the indictment, Rosol doesn't appear to be some kind of mastermind, but rather just a guy who allegedly decided to install and fire the "Low Orbit Ion Cannon" denial of service weapon. (Read our primer on how these attack tools work.) Says the government:

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