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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. Not right by teekid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Got a few minutes of access here with a cellphone. This is completely wrong. All I did was examine the Blaster worm and make a few changes. My changes got released into the wild, and now I'm going to jail for it. My parents are trying to get a lawyer; I think that's my only hope.

    I'm not the one who wrote the Blaster worm. My variant only affected a few computers, and never would have done that if the Blaster worm didn't exist. This is not my fault, but they're making me take the blame for everything this worm has done.

    How are we ever going to advance as a society if we keep penalizing people for just trying to learn how code works?