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Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he-should-know-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he's spent the past 15 months working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors are pushing for a five-year sentence, noting the exceptional threat he represented to society."

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  1. The sentence acceptance speech by AnalPerfume · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is he going to thank Microsoft for their invaluable assistance in his career and sentencing award? After all, without Microsoft's dodgy software he wouldn't be able to have done what he did. Maybe he could just throw a chair at the judge in a symbolic gesture of thanks to Steve Ballmer.

  2. Re:troll mod by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Fuck the moderators. Those idiots are dumb as shit.

    Hey you...yes, you with the shit-eating douche-grin. Gotta few points? Oh please do waste some on me while you're at it, fuckface!