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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.

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  1. writing viruses shouldnt be illegal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    writing viruses shouldnt be illegal
    they are funny LOL

  2. Vaseline time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those jail house niggers are going to like some fresh meat.

  3. Re:no imagenation... by Gigantic1 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Anyone who's imagenation peaks at nameing one of the most significant viruses of out time as 'MS Blaster' deserves to get caught!
    Well...Microsoft has been writing the Virus called "MS Windows" for years and nobody's prosecuted them.
  4. Re:He's innocent. by Frodrick · · Score: 2, Troll
    Or have we forgotten how the system works?

    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'".

  5. Re:A witness turned him in?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been using this dating service for swingers and casual sex called Adult Friend Finder for some time now and I gota tell you it's the best thing since sliced bread. It can get you into trouble though, cause this one time I had this guy who was supposed to come over to my place in the afternoon to fuck me silly. He didn't give me a definite time, so I was getting real worked up and horny waiting for him all afternoon. When the doorbell rang I totally sprang into action. I answered it and grabbed the guy and literally pulled him to the couch while telling him I was soo fucking horny and just couldn't wait to get fucked any longer. He never said a word, but he did have this big goofy smile on his face. I undressed and helped him out of his cloths and literally attacked his cock. I sucked him and then he fucked me and fucked me till I moaned out in pleasure. It was incredible and I screamed and cried as he rocked my world. He came a little quickly, but he was nice enough to pull out and shoot his load all over my belly. I thanked him for a wonderful lay and asked him how long he had been using the system. He looked at me all funny and asked what system I was talking about? I got very embarrassed all of a sudden and I inquired as to why he came to my door. He told me he was a Mormon spreading the word of the gospel and had never had sex before in his life. He felt bad the was wasn't able to resist me and offered to go with me to church to ask a minister to forgive our moment of weakness, and he even suggested we should think about getting married. I hurried him out the door and couldn't believe what I had just done! Luckily my date arrived 15 mins later so I fucked him to get my mind off it. I still get little cute love cards from that religious bozo every week though, I think he's in love with me.

  6. Re:He's innocent. by Phantasmo · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  7. Re:Will be arresting... by 16K+Ram+Pack · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps they're hoping he goes to a country that George Bush wants to bomb^H^H^H^Hliberate.

  8. MAY HIS ANUS BE RAPED REPEATEDLY, PAINFULLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If I had him in my presence, I would heat up a soldering iron with plenty of vaseline on it. Then I would procede to slide it into his ass and through his digestive tract until it reached his tonsils.

  9. Fuck The FBI by skenfrith · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  10. you are clueless or evil. by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll
    Exemplery justice is not justice. It would be wrong for this script kiddie to pay for things he did not do, just to scare others. It's immoral and it won't work. There are many variants of MSBLASTER and many authors for each. It would be wrong to make him pay for all the damage done by it, but dumb fucks like you would like to see him fry for all the damage ever done by any virus. At this point, it's doubtful he did anything at all but test the damn thing out and even that is shaky. Even if he did write a varient, proving the damage will be impossible. Yet he will feel the weight of thousands of clueless Big_Dumb_Company_M$_Admins who have had their reputations rightly tarnished for using Microsoft crap again and again. The FBI needs to look like it's doing something to please them and you.

    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.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  11. Re:He's innocent. by Cyno · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

  12. Re:Picking nits. What study? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't bother. He's an obvious troll. That's why he was rated up so quickly. Typical /. really.

  13. Re:A witness turned him in?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "What's the world coming to :("

    We're coming to dangle our cocks in your mouth and let you gargle with them, that's what the world's coming to.

  14. Re:Prisoner rape is funny, ha ha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Rape is immoral. Rape is inhuman. Rape is cruel and unusual punishment" ...except when it comes to prisoners, at which point it becomes funny as hell. Why? Because some nameless prick who offended against society (whether it was stealing a chocolate bar, defrauding the IRS, or cheating on welfare) is geeting ass-slammed for his troubles, instead of camping out watching television at the grey-bar hotel and resort.

    By the way, I'm waiting for the day you slip up and go to prison so I can laugh about the anal reaming you're going to get too. Nobody squeals quite like a bleeding heart squeals!

  15. Re:A witness turned him in?!? by roju · · Score: 0, Troll

    What crime is committed by writing a virus?

  16. You are clueless by lpret · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  17. In Soviet Russia... by SUB7IME · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... viruses write geeky 18-year-olds.