German Teen Charged with Creating Sasser

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday September 9, 2004 @11:58AM from the did-someone-say-sasser dept.

nomoreself writes "Sven Jaschan, only 18 years old, has been indicted by prosecutors in Verden, Germany for allegedly releasing the well known Sasser worm. The PC World article has the details, including the fact that Microsoft's $250,000 reward offer was responsible for informants' coming forth with Jaschan's name, and that Jaschan has actually already confessed to writing several versions of Netsky, as well as the worm in question. Surprisingly enough, the 143 victims that have filed charges are only claiming $158,000 worth of damages." You might remember when he was first arrested back in May.

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Re:Who's fault is it really? by LostCluster · 2004-09-09 12:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

Software cannot run itself. In order for a worm to exist, there has to be some exploitable host process that starts the ball rolling...
Re:Hrmm... by whoisjoe · 2004-09-09 13:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

You must be new around here. It's actually:

1. Write some evil worms
2. Get a friend to "inform" Microsoft
3. Pay $158,000 in damages.
4. ???
5. Profit!