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Creator of Sasser Worm Goes on Trial

Posted by Zonk on from the facing-the-music dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Sorry, fry the kid. Use this as YET ANOTHER... by JeTmAn81 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Something about the haughty tone of this post makes me think the poster is a hearty advocate of abortion....but nobody wants to swim in these waters, now do they ;)

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  2. Re:Punishments for minors by RapmasterT · · Score: 1, Troll
    There are so many harsh names in the /. reactions! This isn't an anarchist cyber-criminal mafioso terrorist, it's just a kid. At that age, I was mixing potassium nitrate with charcoal and sulphur, and I made some very nice craters with the resulting gunpowder. It's only later that I realized the full impact (pun intended) of what I was doing. At the time it was thrilling but there was no sense of real danger (if something had gone wrong, I'd be sitting in a wheelchair right now - best case scenario).
    Apples and oranges

    If this "kid" (19 years old is a legal adult to the best of my knowledge) created a worm for his own amusement and played with it in his own home network, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

    He didn't just mess around with it, he created the worm, then maliciously released it into the wild. You may have played with blowing stuff up, as most of us did, but we didn't go to the step of attacking other people with our otherwise harmless hobbies.

    He's not "just a kid". He's an adult that comitted a very serious crime, and I hope he goes to jail just like any other criminal.