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Microsoft Drops Blaster Author's Fine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the slap-on-the-wrist dept.

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 ;)

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  1. Re:And in the meantime... by Fjornir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you had a box that caught blaster there is nothing preventing you from taking this kid to civil court for damages.

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  2. Re:Drops the fine? by Eradicator2k3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That was *probably* a poor word choice. I would imagine that the $500K "fine" actually was damages awarded to MS. MS does have the option to recommend that the court replace the awarded damages (of which they would only see a fraction) with community service. IANAL, however and this is mere speculation on my part.

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