Two men have been jailed in Britain for their role in launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of high-profile sites, including PayPal. "It is intolerable that when an individual or a group disagrees with a particular entity's activities, they should be free to curtail that activity by means of attacks such as those which took place in this case," said Judge Peter Testar, when he handed down his decision in the case, according to news reports.
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