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DIgital Sit-in? Attorney Says DDoS Attack Not A Crime

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An attorney defending a homeless man alleged to be a member of the activist group "Anonymous" has filed an unusual defense, claiming that even if his client carried out a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Santa Cruz County computers, it would have simply been initiating a next-generation version of the sit-in protest.

The man, 47-year-old Christopher Doyon, allegedly carried out the cyber-attack under the pseudonym "Commander X," although his attorney denies Doyon has any connection to that alias. The attack was allegedly carried out in protest of the county's rules against sleeping outdoors in Santa Cruz, which triggered the arrests of several activists last year.

Whether or not his client is the mysterious "Commander X" is irrelevant, attorney Jason Leiderman told Talking Points Memo. He believes that DDoS is not a crime.

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