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Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine
bevo noted that Microsoft has dropped their fine against the author of the Blaster worm that DDoS'd Microsoft's web sites and hijaacked 50,000 computers. 225 hours instead of a 500k fine. $2200/hour seems like a good deal to me ;)
Luckily the community service cannot involve computers, otherwise this guy will get away lightly by cleaning up roughly 50 spyware/virus-infected Windows machines to clock up 225 hours.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said the sentence reflected that although he was 18 at the time of the attack, his maturity level was much younger than that. She also said his home life contributed to the problem.
Damn, that precedent means virtually everyone here on /. is immune from prosecution. For anything. Especially since "mom's basement" probably qualifies as a "home life".
John
I, for one welcome our new $2200/h overlords...
... by replacing himself by a shell script?
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
Thats not such a great TCO
Life just ins't fair....
'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
...gardening! getting to know the REAL bugs out there!
Three rings for the Elven-kings in the sky
What a great company Microsoft is!
Moof.
So MS has been given judicial powers to grant clemency now?
Yes. They first used it for this case.
Um, I don't think you have to pay them. At all.
Another one bites the dust
Oh, you still have to pay them. It's just that after it's all over you can easily get your money back.
Uh oh... I just described GTA.
RUN! IT'S THE GOVERNMENT!!
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Helping Bill Gates with his first Gentoo install..
http://request-header.info
The story was really about an MS demo at an author's convention of a new consumer laser cannon that barely missed hitting Stephen King when the targeting system bluescreened.
Install it and watch it say "More Secure!"
Come to think about it, every version of Windows since Windows 98 has said that during the install.
...they should make him apologize, in person, to everyone affected by the worm.
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
I always thought that a good community service activity was shoveling elephant poop at the zoo. 225 hours of poo shoveling would give this person some perspective as to the aguish they have caused! :-)
I could hire an actress for a snuff film for less than $2200/hr.
Ok...I've admittedly led a somewhat sheltered suburban life but, how in God's name do you know this?
I saw that episode of CSI too
he could write a book about it
No sig for you!!
a new worm has emerged which targets Linux exclusively. Reverse-engineering has thus far only revealed the string "!seineew era sreenigne xunil zes rekcah retsalB".
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