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Blaster Writer Caught
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.
Alleged writer. Innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt.
That was pre-911. Now it is "You're guilty because we say so. Either plead guilty now or A) be charged with enough trumped-up bullshit to keep you in jail for life, or B) we will just hold you for eternity as a 'material witness'".
Oh, I'm sure that the FBI aren't (quite) dumb enough to announce this without doing some investigation
I doubt it matters to them whether he's done anything wrong, they'll just throw the book at him anyway. The US government's got to say it's done something right.
The world's most powerful millitary faces off with the weakest to go get Osama bin Laden and... they can't find him.
So they enter Iraq to distract people from their failure and... they can't find the WMD or Hussein.
If they can't "get it right" abroad then they'll do it at home.
Hurrah! Some kid was arrested! Now there will be no more viruses or worms! Next we'll outlaw spam and that will stop, too!
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Perhaps they're hoping he goes to a country that George Bush wants to bomb^H^H^H^Hliberate.
i like viruses becuuse they help keep us on our toes and point out flaws in architecture and implementation.
Sucks for you if you got "infected" before anyone knew about it, thats life.
Sucks if you got "infected" *after* the virus was known, your stupid.
You or your applications ran untrusted code; get/demand better apps or get/demand a better brain. But dont put someone in prison because the public are morons.
The real bag guys in this whole thing are the ones with all the money in Redmond. It's their crap that's broken by design. The worst thing that can be said about the script kiddie at this point is that someone said he played with a varient of a nasty M$ virus. That's weak, but he's going to pay for it.
It all reeks of cluelessness, failure of design and scape-goating. Why can't the FBI use it's new USA ACT or Patriot ACT powers to catch the real authors?
The only lesson I've learned one I've learned many times long ago: Microsoft is terminally broken and it's a bad idea to have anything at all to do with it.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
He's guilty because he's alleged to have written one of the most popular viruses this year. And the virus had to cost at least billions, if not trillions of dollars in damage to countless corporations, governments, Windows users, etc.
All those victims want someone to hang for what they did and they finally put a face on that someone. See, today we don't need real evidence when secret evidence will work good enough. The people will believe both. And all they really want is someone to pay, preferably with their life. Because it makes us feel better, or maybe safer, but they're really the same thing.
I mean, nobody in their right mind could ever blame Microsoft. They didn't know it was insecure until it was too late. Its not their fault. They'll try harder next time.
This is why everyone should be using Windows.. so Microsoft has the money to fix these problems before they happen.
What crime is committed by writing a virus?
I can't begin to try and understand your logic. Go to http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements and look at the servers that are getting defaced. It's mostly linux servers. If linux were the "it" OS, there would be tons of people who would be writing viruses saying "Linus, why do you make it so easy!!!1"
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