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Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial
Cobb writes "Creator of the Sasser worm Sven Jaschan begins his trial today in Verden, Germany. Arrested in May 2004, Jaschan faces charges for his crimes as a juvenile. A reward from Microsoft partially led to the capture of the virus creator. From the article: 'The charges, which also include disrupting public services and illegally altering data, carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison. However, court spokeswoman Katharina Kruetzfeld said that, as a minor, he faces a lesser penalty.'"
It'd be nice if his punishment was to do the work of all the IT personnell who had to clean up after his mess. I'd love to sit at home and relax while that little dweeb does my job. I'd be the one getting paid of course.
" I wish I could put a bounty on people who made me look stupid." If you did then you'd be very rich. ;-)
But is he allowed to use a touch-tone phone?
Steven Wooston, Lead Programmer, J-J-J-Julius Games
Author of a CONSIDERABLE number of best-selling games
Let's see him worm his way out of this!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Or dead.
I think Hitler would agree with you.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Five Years? That's no big deal then. He'll be on parole before Longhorn actually ships :-)
Jaschan: You want answers?
Prosecutor: I think I'm entitled to them.
Jaschan: You want answers?
Prosecutor: I want the truth!
Jaschan: You can't handle the truth! Old man, we live in a world that has firewalls. And those firewalls have to be setup by men with MCSEs. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Mr. Ballmer?
I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Windows XP and you curse Microsoft. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Windows XP has faults, while tragic, probably saved jobs. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves jobs...
You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at LAN parties, you want me on hacking that firewall. You need me finding exploits in that firewall. We use words like reboot, blue screen, exploits, Microsoft...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent hacking something. You use 'em as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very exploits I find, then questions the manner in which I exploit it!
I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a real firewall and configure it. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Prosecutor: Did you write the Sasser worm?
Jaschan: (quietly) I did the job you sent me to do.
Prosecutor: Did you write the Sasser worm?
Jaschan: You're goddamn right I did!!
Or "I just wanted to poison him so I could have sex with his dog all day."
Jeez, can we keep going with the stupid analogies?