MySpace Worm Creator Sentenced

Aidan Steele writes "Remember Samy? The creator of the infamous worm was unfortunate enough to be the the target in MySpace's latest litigation. As was said in the earlier story, the script was "written for fun" and caused no damage. The source and technical explanation for the "attack" was not even released until after MySpace had patched the vulnerability. Apparently this was enough to get the 20 year old (19 at the time of writing the worm) three years of probation, three months of community service, pay restitution to MySpace and is also banned from the Internet. Clearly, disclosing security vulnerabilities doesn't pay."

Comments

Re:Summary biased?

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

It certainly doesn't EVER entail RELEASING a virus or worm that exploits the vulnerability (which is what this little shit did).

I hate myspace, but FFS, their network wasn't created for mister "special snowflake" to explore for his amusement.

Fuck him. The penalty wasn't nearly harsh enough.

Re:A much better (and safer) idea

[HexRei]

flamebait.