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Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating 911 Worm
mabu writes "The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California announced that, roughly a year after his arrest, David Jeansonne pleaded guilty Tuesday to two criminal counts in a scheme that sent email to users of Microsoft's WebTV Internet service containing an attachment that, when opened, reprogrammed their computers to dial 9-1-1 without their knowledge. It still unclear what motivated this 43-year-old to launch such a bizarre worm."
"Help! I'm using WebTV!"
You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
wow, can you say get out of your parents basement and get a girlfri....
Sorry wait, this is slashdot.
I like muppets.
..to see if he could.
That's what virus writing used to be all about. Darn kids and their spam n' such. Why in MY day we wrote virii for the pure joy of destruction and chaos!
People from Louisiana can use a computer! Who'd have thought it!!
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If they ever have a reality TV show based on this, I hope they won't call Eric Estrada and tell him "CHiP's" is being remade...
CHIP unit? Never heard of it.
It's not some huge racist or plot
I'm glad it's not some huge racist. I met this 6 foot 3, Nazi skinhead one time, and man was he a huge pain.
hopefully he will get a good paddling from his cellmate bubba.
Hey, it was one way of getting his name on Slashdot. Come on, how many of us lowly cretins here in the comments section have ever been referred to by our full names in a Slashdot post? Yeah, I can count all two of you out there. The guy's a douchebag, but, by jove, he's a famous douchebag!
It still unclear what motivated this 43-year-old to launch such a bizarre worm.
Simple... Why does a dog lick his own nuts? Because he can.
hack a day
So, more than 21 people need to call 911 when you drive to work? Are you that bad at driving?
Unknown host pong.
No, even though both remaining WebTV boxes were infected.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
> Perhaps he wanted to create a Denial of Service
> attack against the 911 system.
If he'd done it against the American Idol voting hotline, he would have been doing a public service.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Now setting it up to dial an offshore 900 number with himself as the fee collector . . . THAT would have been meaningful in computer science. And by computer science I mean booze and hookers.
That's not a paddle that Bubba just pulled out. Too long, too hard, too much stuff dripping out of the tip.
When the worm hit the UK, the tape answer machine overheated "You have dialled an incorrect number... you have dialled an incorrect number... you have dialled an inco.....Pppppppppppppppppp"
A few years ago with an old mini-laptop type thing(Windows CE 3), I was trying to get it to dial in to my ISP. I was messing with the dial options(like dial 9 before a #, etc), and didn't notice that it would be dialing like 1-911-#... So, when I dialed I could hear the 911 person, but since I had no mic, I had to hang up and let them call me back. Definately one of those "Oh shit" moments.
Every time you post an article on Slashdot, I kill a server. Think of the servers!
You have the right to think this guy is a total dweebe.
How about "sociopath goes to jail after doing something malicious on the Internet" which ironically, covers quite a few stories on Slashdot.
via a modem perhaps?
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It still unclear what motivated this 43-year-old to launch such a bizarre worm.
Like he's going to pull some great reason out of his ass. What could he possibly say that would make reasonable people say "Ohhh! No wonder!"?
He just saved 15% on his car insurance!