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Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating 911 Worm

Posted by timothy on from the with-very-few-exceptions-is-not-a-worm dept.

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."

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  1. Maybe he thought he was doing them a favor... by punxking · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Help! I'm using WebTV!"

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    You can have my cynical agnosticism when you pry it from my cold, dead logic.
  2. hehe by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Funny

    wow, can you say get out of your parents basement and get a girlfri....

    Sorry wait, this is slashdot.

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  3. Motive is quite simple by 7Ghent · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..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!