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."

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Re:Gah?

[tomstdenis]

That's not my point. Making a bomb and not killing yourself is hard enough. I don't think that's good either.

The point is they think they g0t m4dz zk111z for writing some virus. When in reality a virus [specially for win32 users] isn't that hard to get out there.

So maybe if they realize that if they want to show off "mad skillz" they should just do something more productive cuz at least then they can brag about it and get mad job that pays mad money so they can have mad good toys.

Think about it.

Even if a virus WAS hard to write ... what you're gonna go to your next employer and go "you know the power outlet of August 2005? That was me!" ... yeah total model employee...

And you could kiss government jobs goodbye too. In Canada for instance they get the RCMP to do a background check and shit so they know your life story.

In no way is it a smart thing todo and all it does is cause others harm. Hence Stupid and Mean.

Tom