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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!
No, even though both remaining WebTV boxes were infected.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
Grand Theft Auto made him do it!
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
> 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.