@hoagsie "Then, you hack into the offensive machines from another network to get traffic logs to track down the real offenders."
Are you telling a joke? Just following along in your universe here .... Logs will say whatever they intended for them to say. "hacking" is not some automatic thing, either they left themselves open, or they didn't. If they did, and you are going to read the 'logs' that they wrote, with intention of acting on those logs....as you say in your next thought, you then launch a DDoS attack on "those" people you discovered in the "logs" that you got by "hacking".
How easy is it to manipulate you?
I agree with the earlier poster, if you install a computer, and it has particular characteristics, such as it accepts communications on such and such a port, and if it has commands such as "delete"...and you wake up one morning and all your files are deleted, that is entirely your fault.
Your computer, that you installed, worked as designed.
You never have any right to do a DDoS attack, period.
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