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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. Re:Hope he gets slammed by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, if you check my personal website [which I know you did because you're a thorough researching AC poster...] you'd see I **PROGRAM** the GBA [and use it too..]. It's a platform that I can program, e.g. shows I know how embedded systems work [well it's one of a dozen I've used...]. ... So easy to try and tear someone down... that's why you post as AC right?

    Tom

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  2. Re:21 recipients=Worm outbreak? by Xeo+024 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Next on slashdot: Bill Gates picks nose, AGAIN! Film at 11.


    I doubt it. I'm pretty sure that he hires people to pick his nose for him.
  3. Re:Hope he gets slammed by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why am I getting the image of some 5'7" 120 pound punk on the other end of this converation...

    See you don't care probably because you drive like a maniac too. But once you realize that "oncoming traffic is bad" [little math for you... you do 65mph, they do 65mph, when they hit you .. that's 130mph of force... or ... "death"] you'd realize that being cut off isn't such a "minor" thing...

    But agian, you drive like a maniac likely and don't see the harm in "pwnzing the roadz"

    Tom

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    Someday, I'll have a real sig.