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."

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[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

They and any product they make. Sory vaio owners, no internet for you! Can we ban anyone still using aol as well. I'm sure aol's guilty of many crimes against the internet. I'd ban microsoft for the trifecta, but then they'd just build their own iternet that was incompatable with the current one and call it Interweb #.net