Editing Michael Calce (section)

==Project Rivolta==
On February 7, 2000, Calce targeted [[Yahoo!]] with a project he named Rivolta, meaning "rebellion" in [[Italian language|Italian]].<ref name="CalceMichael" />{{Page needed|date=May 2017}} Rivolta was a [[DDoS]] (distributed-denial-of-service) attack in which servers become overloaded with different types of communications to the point where they become unresponsive to commands.<ref name="MajidYar">Majid, Yar. Cybercrime and Society. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006.</ref> At the time, [[Yahoo!]] was a multibillion-dollar web company and the top [[search engine]].<ref name="DavisWall">Davis, Wall. Crime and the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2001.</ref> Mafiaboy's Rivolta managed to shut down [[Yahoo!]] for almost an hour. Calce's goal was, according to him, to establish dominance for himself and TNT, his cybergroup, in the cyberworld.<ref name="CalceMichael" />{{Page needed|date=May 2017}} [[Buy.com]] was targeted in a similar attack afterwards that has been attributed to Calce. Calce claims he was not responsible and that a different hacker performed the DDoS as a challenge to coax him into targeting other websites.<ref name="CalceMichael" /> Calce responded to this in turn by bringing down [[eBay]], [[CNN]], [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], and [[Dell]] via [[DDoS]] over the next week.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-01-23 |title='Mafiaboy' will be sentenced in April {{!}} IT World Canada News |url=https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/mafiaboy-will-be-sentenced-in-april/29463 |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.itworldcanada.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

In a 2011 interview,<ref name="radio-canada">[http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/christiane_charette/2010-2011/chronique.asp?idChronique=12709123079]{{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref> Calce claimed that the attacks had been launched unwittingly, after inputting known addresses in a security tool he had downloaded from a repository on the now defunct file-sharing platform Hotline, developed by [[Hotline Communications]]. Calce left for school, forgetting the application which continued the attacks during most of the day. Upon coming home Calce says that he found his computer crashed, and restarted it unaware of what had gone on during the day.<ref>[http://www.cyberpresse.ca/local/dossiers/protegez-vous/201106/02/mafiaboy-a-t-i-il-dit-vrai.php]{{dead link|date=May 2017}}</ref> Calce claimed that when he overheard the news and recognized the companies mentioned being those he had inputted earlier in the day, he "started to understand what might have happened".<ref name="radio-canada" />