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."

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Re:Inevitable...

[The_Wilschon]

Thank you, astroturfman! If it weren't for you, we'd have to rely on real grass!

Re:Inevitable...

[KD5YPT]

Crap, my apology, clicked the wrong reply button (I thought I was replying to another post... crap).

Re:my experience with slash-dot

[g0bshiTe]

This will be good.

Re:Dumb Kid, Sure

[Cromac]

Yeah, cause look at all the hand gun crimes in England...

Moran.

-Rick

Gun crime is increasing (that's going up for the slower readers) in England since they banned them - morOn.

Gun crime in England and Wales is still rising according to Home Office figures released on Thursday.
Gun crime soars by 35%

The peacefulness England used to enjoy was not the result of strict gun laws. When it had no firearms restrictions England had little violent crime, while the present extraordinarily stringent gun controls have not stopped the increase in violence or even the increase in armed violence. By opting to deprive law-abiding citizens of the right to keep guns or to carry any article for defence, English government policy may actually be contributing to the lawlessness and violence afflicting its people.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,59866,00.html

Re:my experience with slash-dot

[rsd1s1g]

So... how exactly is it that someone with "no prior experience" using slashdot has 2 previous posts? With one of them being fairly long and modded up quite a bit?

You people really need to get a fucking life. I don't care if you want to run your anti-slash site and poke your fun and point out the inconsistencies. In fact, I found some of them rather entertaining. But I really don't see how you can preach what you do while spamming the discussion boards all the same. This really just goes to show what kind of low life losers you really are, that you can't manage to get the word out about your site through normal, respectable channels, but have to resort to such childish tactics as this.

Fuck off.