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Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police
Apogee writes "A number of german news websites, like n-tv, or the german yahoo news site (courtesy of the german press agency, lending this some credibility) (web sites in german) report that the programmer of the Sasser worm has been arrested by German police. The Sasser author is an 18-year-old man who was arrested on Friday in Rotenburg, Germany.
With the Sasser worm being the latest among worms that spread like wildfire among unpatched windows boxes, and apparently also caused serious computer outages and cost to the economy, how will this be transformed into an indictment?"
Update: 05/08 18:41 GMT by T : SexySas writes "As the German news site heise reports, the 18-year-old author of Sasser is responsible for Netsky, too. The German police is talking about 'a milestone in war against cybercrime'."
they shoulda waited until MS announced a reward for it first!
find it ironic that an ad for Microsoft security services accompanies this story?
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
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Make him explain to my mother what a worm is, what he made it, and how to enable a firewall. That'd be punishment enough.
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on the bright side, he released it just a little too early... seeing as this is just the time for Windows users to do their yearly Spring Reinstall anyway.
if i go out onto a motorway... and throw a bag of nails on to the road, into the path of cars traveling at 80mph, how am i any more liable for the resulting carnage than the millions who run insecure rubber tyres?
the responsibility lies with vehicle manufacturers for not fitting tyres with kevlar inserts in the side walls as standard; and with motorists for not fitting them themselves.
> And writing intentionally crappy operating systems isn't? Ask yourself: what would happen if they wrote something that was *perfect*?
Someone would complain the default colour scheme was crap.
Well, if he gets sent to jail at least she should know how to bake him a CD with a file on it.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
...I think he should be locked in a padded cell with a 486-SX and a copy of Windows v3.1 for company, I'd sooner have my left nut crushed in a vice rather than face that
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This will demonstrate the power of Open Source. The Phatbot source code is public, so it will be modified and used long after its original author has been thrown into jail.
"However I am basing this on that fact he is 18 and on the assumption that he fits a profile of some kid who does n't have many friends and needs attention."
Well, that's all the proof we need isn't it.
Slashdotters blaming someone other than Billy G or Stevie B for bad things.
In other news, Osama Bin Laden renounces Islam and donates his fortune to the James Randi organisation.
> According to one of thousands of corollaries to Murphy's Law, a spelling correction on the net is guaranteed to contain at least one spelling mistake as well.
I propose that this corollary be named "Muprjys law".
No one who speaks German can be an evil man!
Using my brain I have worked out that he was meaning 'surely wrong'.
Windows *is* designed to access the internet, handle email etc.
Oh? I'm more under the impression that windows was designed to be accessed by the internet...
He probably wrote it using Microsoft Word and didn't use the remove hidden data tool which left his name, initials, activation code, revision history etc. in the virus.
Not the US system though! I've seen those TV programs set in US high schools - the students are mostly in their 20s!
The same people who don't teach students the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Maybe we find out about the real names and versions of all the Sasser and Netsky variants now. The ones we know now are just made up by the anti virus guys after all.
heise.de today mentions that Microsoft will pay $250000 to the (less than five) informants.