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Sasser Author Under Arrest, Say German Police

Posted by Hemos on from the mein-wormen dept.

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'."

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  1. they caught him too soon by ReallyQuietGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    they shoulda waited until MS announced a reward for it first!

    1. Re:they caught him too soon by gnu-generation-one · · Score: 5, Funny

      So when will the LSASS author be under arrest?

  2. does anyone... by Lxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    find it ironic that an ad for Microsoft security services accompanies this story?

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    1. Re:does anyone... by rokzy · · Score: 4, Funny

      no, I find it surprising that there are people on /. who still see ads and expect other people to see ads too.

  3. Set the man free!!! by bezza · · Score: 5, Funny
    He got me an afternoon off work!

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  4. Ultimate punishment by m00nun1t · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  5. Re:About time by croddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:MS by keif · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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.

  7. Re:He was just helping his mother by Zocalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if he gets sent to jail at least she should know how to bake him a CD with a file on it.

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