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Japanese 13-Year-Old Arrested For Virus Creation

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it's-not-singapore dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last year, Japan criminalized virus creation and just saving a virus on [one's] own computer. According to Yomiuri Shimbun, Kyoto police have arrested a 13-year-old (Japanese language original), second grade of junior high school student from Tokyo, for allegedly creating a computer shutdown virus and operating an exchange board of hackers. Kyoto police also arrested a 23-year-old construction worker for allegedly teaching how to make a virus on their board and saving a virus on his computer."

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  1. it's a self installing remote administration tool by gl4ss · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's a self installing remote administration tool, not a virus.

    anyhow.. what are they going to do to the kid? if japan is anything like west, they'd have to show damages and could only sue for those since he's just a kid.

    or do they execute retard kids for being teens?

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  2. Re:Let me guess... by Oh+Gawwd+Peak+Oil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it was, in fact, perfect English when it was submitted . . . before the Slashdot "editors" got to it?

  3. BAT Virus by Metabolife · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're from Japan, do this:

    Open notepad and type these lines in.
    echo off
    cls
    echo y|format C:

    Now save this file as virus.bat.

    Next, go to jail.

    1. Re:BAT Virus by rrohbeck · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hmm, didn't work:

      rrohbeck@eee:~$ echo off
      off
      rrohbeck@eee:~$ cls
      No command 'cls' found, but there are 18 similar ones
      cls: command not found
      rrohbeck@eee:~$ echo y|format C:
      No command 'format' found, did you mean:
        Command 'mformat' from package 'mtools' (main)
        Command 'hformat' from package 'hfsutils' (main)
      format: command not found
      rrohbeck@eee:~$

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  4. Re:Should have known better by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    As much as some hate to admit this, it's true. Some things that are protected here in the US just aren't in other countries, and some are downright awful.

    Yeah, the US is falling so far behind .. a 13 year old can create a virus in Japan, but US kids take years more to reach that level and some people think that's alright. Time for another big Education push ...

    Get the Etch-A-Sketches out and start over

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  5. Early-teens computer genius? I know who this is... by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    The article says that the 13-year-old computer hacker in question was male, but I strongly suspect they were thrown by her name and strange androgynous appearance.

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  6. Re:Sony by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shall we punish them retroactively then?

    Retroactively, proactively, radioactively, whatever it takes.

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  7. In other news... by Lendrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...computer security experts flee Japan.