A Q&A with MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., eBay, and CNN. Here, he talks about how he did it, the politics of cyberattacks, and the evolution of attack motivations and methods.