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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. Wrong! by Luke+Psywalker · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This kid did not write the blaster virus! He just made a varient that involved small changes and his varient infected 50,000 computers.

    The real blaster virus infected nearly 10 million computers.