Mafiaboy (Michael Calce)
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The alias of Michael Calce, the Montreal fifteen-year-old whose February 2000 denial-of-service spree - Project Rivolta - knocked Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, CNN, Dell and E*Trade offline using university machines he had compromised.
The attacks landed at the peak of dot-com optimism and detonated it: the idea that a teenager with borrowed computers could switch off the internet's biggest brands reached the White House, drove emergency summits and helped make distributed denial of service a permanent line item in every risk register. Calce was sentenced in youth court to eight months of open custody, and, in the pattern the field keeps repeating, grew up into a security consultant and author.
Also known as: michael calce, project rivolta, february 2000 ddos