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Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm

Posted by michael on from the netloon dept.

ScentCone writes "Minnesota teen Jeffrey Lee Parsons got a year and half for releasing a Blaster variant. The lightweight sentence was due, said the judge, to the parents' neglect. Quoting the judge: 'It's not a healthy thing to lock yourself in a room and create your own reality.' Which means most slashdotters basically have a get out of jail free card."

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  1. Parents need more legal liability by Queer+Boy · · Score: 1, Troll

    I think if a child commits some kind of crime that requires a trial that there needs to be some consequence for the parents. I can't understand squirting out some kids and then letting them run rampant and not having any responsibility for a minor's actions. The excuses for bad parenting need to stop or they need to stop being bad parents.

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  2. Re:He was young by ackthpt · · Score: 1, Troll
    ... and because he was a teenager. If this was a 40 year old geek he probably would have been made an example of.

    Dunno, Mitnick only did 10 months, same for Abene.

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  3. Re:18 months in jail != out of jail by ScentCone · · Score: 1, Troll

    Non-violent criminals should be treated different, and then circumstances taken into account. Stealing excluded.

    How many man hours of very expensive IT productivity went into cleaning up the mess he deliberately caused? How is that, in meaningful terms, not as bad as "stealing?"

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