what do you expect me to think?
That you should have some evidence beyond pure circumstance before slinging around legal threats?
Would you somehow have been better off if OP had been intimidated by legal liabilities into never discovering and posting this information?
P.S. If you don't want people "attacking" your gear through a public IP interface, simply configure it to not fulfill requests so promptly and politely. Is it that difficult?
first off I am not the op. i did not brute force 28 knc machines he did. now when he did the brute force on the 28 machines he did not tell us he had permission to do it. so stop defending him for doing something that is not legal.
did his brute force attack hurt this person?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=31163.msg4140767#msg4140767maybe I do not know but time wise it matches. was he off line for 3 or 5 hours extra due to the password attack ? do not know. I ask you this. would you want someone coming to the front door of your home and testing your door knob to see if it opens easily ?
so to the op did you have permission to attack the 28 machines? yes or no? my apologies if you informed those miners. before you attacked them