Virtual Protest Crosses Line into Cyber Crime?

A professor at the University of California San Diego who organized a virtual protest against the university’s president has been told he may face criminal charges for launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The protest, organized by Professor Ricardo Dominguez, involved protesters submitting new page requests to the president’s university website every 1 to 6 seconds.

The protesters were able to open new browser windows to increase the…