The response by Patio11 regarding how this was acceptable penetration testing was beyond stupid.<p>Just because you are univesity researcher does not means you can take money and then attack some random company and say LOL JK just doing &quot;Research&quot;. Universities have enormous computing power &#x2F; resources available via various means to do research. Just because I have access to a thousand node cluster does not means I can randomly launch DDOS attack against some company and then claim &quot;Research&quot;. This is equivalent to those youtube videos where at the end they justify assault and other egregious behaviour claiming &quot;Social experiment&quot; or &quot;Prank&quot;.