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Great write-up. As someone unfamiliar with the legal side of this, would it be worth the author contacting law enforcement of some kind?

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Unlikely. From past experience (a 4-year-long online harassment and dirty-tricks campaign!) the police are generally clueless to online matters. The most common responses I've had were "we don't police the Internet", "there's no evidence" or "there's nothing we can do".

Unless you're, yanno, EMI Records, Sky TV or someone with political sway.

The most productive (best outcome) way of handling it tends to be to turn your OPSEC up to eleven and put all your XP into defence. Again, based on experience.

Thank you for your insight. As you point out, it's no alternative to a robust defence, I was just curious as to whether it would ever actually be investigated. I would probably report it still just for accountability (e.g. insurance). Especially now you can report online.

If you want to just have a piece of official documentation, why not. And if you know Putin and Xi personally maybe you even have a chance to get the DDOSer.

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