Whoa .. there is a big story in here somewhere, which appears to have gone way over the head of the LA Times hack who wrote this regurgitated press release.<p>He was arrested on criminal charges for running a simple benchmarking program? By the company he was formerly the CEO of?<p>This is patently ridiculous, and can only be a case of YouSendIt having some major grievances with him about something else, or some other kind of ulterior motive. It seems only reasonable that he was running apache benchmark for curiosity, not with any serious malicious intent, and is now being held on some trumped up charges concocted by people out to get him.<p>If anyone knows of an article that actually explains the relationship between YouSendIt and their former CEO, please link to it.
>> "By intentionally transmitting the ApacheBench program to YouSendIt's server..." the FBI said in a statement.<p>This statement makes it clear how unfamiliar the FBI is with technology.
<p><pre><code> $ ab -c 500 -n 1000000 http://example.com/some/resource/intensive/url
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Amazing how many sites this kind of "attack" would take down. Most sites don't have any throttling in place to stop it.
It's pretty pathetic that a file transfer site can be harmed by a single user running ab. I really hope there is more to this. I run ab all the time on my own stuff, I didn't know I could go to prison for something as simple as testing the performance of a site I used to run.
Isn't he the same guy who was barred from the iOS store for creating crappy apps that were essentially just webpages packaged as applications?<p>Wonder whatever happened to that ordeal
More about Khalid : <a href="http://blekko.com/ws/Khalid+Shaikh+/techblogs" rel="nofollow">http://blekko.com/ws/Khalid+Shaikh+/techblogs</a><p>I agree with comments here that this is one of those 'these facts don't sound like the story in which they are presented' Given the timeline of his relationship with YouSendIt its possible he had a grudge against them, just speculation though.
The fact that he got caught suggests he didn't bother to cover his tracks which is fairly easy to do. So how do you not realize that throwing a brick through your old employers front window isn't a crime?
For those that are getting confused.<p>What he did was something like this...<p><pre><code> C:\Apache\bin\ab.exe -c 500 -n 5000000 -p ab.exe http://yousendit.com/send-it
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Using ab.exe to POST the binary ab.exe over and over using the service (yousendit) which send file1 from user1 to user2.