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Blaster Writer Caught

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the doing-the-time-for-doing-the-crime dept.

Henry V .009 writes "The FBI will be arresting an 18 year-old in connection with MS Blaster, reports The Washington Post." According to the article, the teen was witnessed testing the worm, and then turned in by a bystander. It's also worth noting that this is merely one of the Blaster variations. Hope whoever it was had fun, because a world of pain is waiting in store now.

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  1. Will be arresting... by earthloop · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FBI will be arresting an 18 year-old

    Coder: Huh? They are coming for me? I'd better get moving before they get here.

  2. Lucky Bastard by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lucky the authorities got to him first that is. Well they say there are more virus authors out there. Hopefully all that dental equipment I bought on Ebay will be put to good use.

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  3. Re:I doubt it. by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or SCO will report that he used their proprietary code to do it, ergo everyone infected with the virus will now be sued by SCO for illegally using their code.

  4. Re:A witness turned him in?!? by phagstrom · · Score: 5, Funny

    All virus/worm/trojan writers use MovieOS where stuff like "Assembling Virus" and "Testing Virus" are written to the screen in blinking fonts.

    Didn't you ever see Swordfish? ;-)

  5. His defense... by r00zky · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I got a virus in my computer and... and... it wrote another itself!

    Just remember this

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  6. Whoa. Call the NSA. Call the Guiness Book of Rec's by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 5, Funny

    The worlds most intelligent bystander has just been identified.

  7. Cryptic message by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Researchers also discovered another message hidden inside the infection that appeared (emphasis added) to taunt Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates: "billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!"

    Yup, that's cryptic alright. I'll bet the FBI's first question will be to ask what he meant by that.

  8. more news by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Redmond, VA: The youngster will be charged by two companies with accusations of reverse engineering. Citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Microsoft is accusing him of implementing a piece of code that circunvents patented Microsoft's Windows protection.

    Richard Ludwig, attorney for Microsoft, said "My clients believe that the writer of this virus is actively destroying the value of my client's proprietary technology, and demand that this viral activity cease immediately."

    Mark Scheise, attorney for SCO, said the teenager violated its intellectual property rights by using SCO code in the virus. He said that each bit from its code was a perfect match with SCO's code. "He was using exactly the same two bits as SCO, just in another sequence". Scheise also added that this was not just a coincidence, and denied any request to disclose wich are the two bits. "I can't tell you wich are these two bits, but I assure you they're the same as thos used by SCO".

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  9. Re:A witness turned him in?!? by LineNoiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...an arrest has not yet been made...

    Well, if he does read /., I'm sure he's busy running a big frickin magnet over his hard drive(s) right about now...

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