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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Others should face liability also

[ravenspear]

What about Microsoft?

Shouldn't they face some consequence for writing such shitty code as the security nightmare that is Windows?

It's kind of funny really. In almost any company if a single coder could be found responsible for coding mistakes that cost the company millions of dollars, he would be fired and quite possibly sued. But when thousands of coders in a company collectively do the same thing, they get off without any responsibility for the effects of unleashing their horribly buggy code on the entire world.