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'."

Comments

Re:they caught him too soon

[cuzality]

And it's too bad this guy wasn't caught in China, as my boss is always saying about these virus writers.

In China they have a very efficient means of dealing with people like this: a bullet in the back of the head, quick and easy.

From an American perspective (though some of these might apply in Germany):
No due process, no suspect's rights, no Miranda warning, no 5th amendment, no court-appointed attorney, no judge, no jury, no appeals, no comfy jail cell, etc, etc, etc....

The auther prolly used WinXP

[Adolph_Hitler]

Windows XP has backdoors in it to allow Microsoft and other authorities to trace people.

If the file was compiled on XP, its fairly simple to see that and know a lot about the machine just by analyzing the file itself.

Microsoft most likely had a backdoor set up within XP. Next time they will write their viruses in Linux.