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 ;)

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Re:Microsoft, the good guy

[bonch]

You can't stop worms and trojans. But why should your operating system take those extra steps to be helpful to script kiddies by having insecure ports open and a vulnerable RPC protocol? Hackers love Microsoft Windows.