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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'."
> how will this be transformed into an indictment?
Oh I'm sure they'll think of something. But they should be arresting Bill Gates for interfering with Modern Progress by intentionally distributing defective software and operating systems. The fact that Microsoft operates in this fashion in order to rape and pillage the economy, makes it criminal, ie: corporate racketeering.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
as always.
CALLER: It was like a college fraternity prank that stacked up naked men --
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?
LIMBAUGH: And these American prisoners of war -- have you people noticed who the torturers are? Women! The babes! The babes are meting out the torture.
LIMBAUGH: You know, if you look at -- if you, really, if you look at these pictures, I mean, I don't know if it's just me, but it looks just like anything you'd see Madonna, or Britney Spears do on stage. Maybe I'm -- yeah. And get an NEA grant for something like this. I mean, this is something that you can see on stage at Lincoln Center from an NEA grant, maybe on Sex in the City -- the movie. I mean, I don't -- it's just me.
Not sure they have those in Germany, but a few years put away in whatever the Kraut equivalent to it would be appropriate.
Send a message.
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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....
They're still afraid of being labeled Nazis. Notice you can do just about anything in Germany EXCEPT anything Nazi-related. And they really get a bug up their butts if you teach your dog to give an SS salute.
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What would Bill Clinton do?
I heard Donald Rumsfeld is going to go over to educate "old Europe" how to keep their military and police from mistreating their prisoners. The Germans with their Nazi past don't know what liberty and freedom really means, that is why they are not in the coallition of the willing.
--- guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people ---
I come from the old school ITS programming environment where there was no security ... because most people who got access to a computer could be trusted not to delete each other's files. It's deeply depressing to me that people exist who are as cruel and malicious as the crackers and virus writers of today.
I've suffered a few breakins where I have lost control over my machine. These times feel like a severe violation. I'm not going to go quite this far, because the physical experience gives rape an entirely different dimention, but it feels like I'd expect being raped does. The same feelings of violation, degradation and a lot of lost time and hard work to get things back to normal.
I'd love to see the same penalties applied to breaking into computer systems as as applied to rape, because then I think the people doing these things would have to consider what they're doing and their imipact on their victims. Right now, I think most people like this guy think it's a game, instead of focusing on the incredible amounts of agony that is caused.
To me, anyone who creates a worm is like a serial rapist. True, he damages each victim less, but he reaches out and molests massive numbers of victims -- deliberately and with malice.
If you don't think we should kill these people for writing virii or breaking into systems, how do you think they should be treated, so they won't write them again, and so others can be deterred from it?
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Send him to federal 'pound me in the ass prison'. He caused *me* to waste 10 minutes updating systems that should have already been updated.
/. isn't a monolithic entity, it's a collection of individuals. Bullshit. Look at the average of comments on articles like these. Worm writers get arrested stories, more than 50% want to hang him. When a new p2p software is released, everyone extolls the virtues and points to download links.)
Oooh, what's this? Violating copyrights of RIAA/MPAA member companies? Give that man a medal.
Similarly: violate the GPL, burn down their offices. Distribute a zero day crack for UT2k4, fellate the guy.
What a fucking bunch of hypocrites. (Blah, blah, blah,
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
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.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.