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German Youth Convicted for Sasser Worm
dan dan the dna man writes "The BBC is reporting that Sven Jaschan, author of the Sasser Worm, has been found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data. He received a 21 month suspended sentence, as he was tried as a minor. He was 17 years old when he wrote the worm." From the article: "Sven Jaschan avoided a jail sentence by the skin of his teeth because he was arrested within days of his 18th birthday...However, in the grand scheme of the virus world, it's the organised crime gangs, which are increasingly emerging to make stacks of money through targeted attacks, that should be dealt the harsh sentences - over and above the dumb teenagers."
Don't lock him up, don't curtail his computer usage.
Just force him to use AOL for the next 5 years.
I guess he wasn't able to worm his way out of this one.
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The victims bear 100% responsibility as far as I'm concerned.
Think... if a scientist made a biological virus that spread through the air and your home didn't have air filters capable of scrubbing it, then clearly you are at fault. Not the scientist!
I think I speech for the Slashdot community when I say that I am going to miss these interesting programs. With Jaschan being convicted, and Claria being bought out by Microsoft, how am I going to have an excuse to go out to an extended lunch, or take the rest of the day off? My company only gives me one hour to eat lunch, which is not nearly enough to go to Wal-Mart and get my four litres of Mountain Dew, my two coffees at Dunkin' Donuts, with my two dozen donuts, and then make my way over to Burger King. I hope someone replaces Jaschan soon in the name of giving me extended lunches and days off to code. Does anyone else feel this way?
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From the Parent:
The virus was released ON his 18th birthday (April 29, 2004). He was tried as a minor because the german courts determined that he created the virus before he was 18. He wasn't arrested days before his 18th birthday as the parent says.
From the Article:
"Sven Jaschan avoided a jail sentence by the skin of his teeth because he was arrested within days of his 18th birthday,"
So he was arrested before he released the virus? When did Germany get their pre-crime division up and running?
My brother in-law has what he calls the Guido proposition. That is that everyone in the country should pitch in 1 or two dollars a year to a fund which hires big guys named Guido and Luigi to fly around the world find these virus writers and spammers and well..............I think you get the picture. That would be so much better than jail time.
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That's OK...your previous post applies to just about any discusion on Slashdot... ^_^
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simple, just release your virus with an EULA. if you use it, the creator assumes no responsibility. if the creator goes to jail, it means EULA's fail and thus hell will freeze over, the earth will start spinning backwards, and mass anarchy will take over the world.
...allegedly wrecked Delta Airlines' systems in Atlanta for seven hours, leading to the cancellation of 40 flights. Around the world,
How is this any different than a normal day on Delta Airlines? They probably figured they could blame their low industry rankings on Sasser.
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I'd say that's your tough luck for:
a) running windows
b) not applying the patches which your vendor had already made available
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It's more like a small nuclear bomb in each home, great for powering the house, but not so much something you want the kids mucking around with unsupervised.
rofl...
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