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Japanese 13-Year-Old Arrested For Virus Creation
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."
It was the auto-save that kicked in, I swear it your honor!
Can,t say I'm surprised. If I were outside the US,, I'd be wary about things that the bill of rights would protect me from stateside. Think twice ,I guess.
Time to go arrest Sony's Execs for their rootkits.
If only the /. 'editors' were so zealous.
Does no one proof read? This is painful to read
Let me guess... English isn't the the submitter's first language. Can't the editors at least clean that up a bit?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
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?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
...the virus affects spelling and grammar checkers.
[quote]"allegedly teaching a how to make a virus on their board and saved a virus on his computer."[/quote]
Using google translate, I see. Why for editors not post check computer happy?
...but who's going to arrest the slashdot editor who let this butchery of a summary get through?
Let's see if I can fix this mess:
Last year, Japan criminalized virus creation and even just saving a virus on your own computer. According to Yomiuri Shimbin, Kyoto police have arrested a 13-year-old (Japanese language article), second-year junior high school student from Tokyo for allegedly creating a virus that shuts down computers and operating an exchange board for hackers. Kyoto police also arrested a 23-year-old construction worker for allegedly teaching people how to make a virus on that same exchange board and saving a virus onto his own computer.
Is this the plot of some manga masquerading as news?
When do the cyborg rape octopuses show up?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
even just saving a virus? so jail time for downloading / passing spyware, carp ware, virus?
So you can go to jail just by picking up some drive by virus?
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.
It's hard to believe that a country as rich, so advanced technologically, with such brilliant and creative minds can pass laws like this. Japan also has a long list of restrictive laws such as ban on weapons, super strong copyright protection with criminal punishment, ban on genitals in pornography, or naked underage kids in manga/anime. When I was studying japanese, I remember my teacher (also japanese) told me that Japan is one of the very few cultures where the population never rioted against the oppressive ruling class, which is why he believed that even nowadays people is very submissive to the point that corporations act almost like feuds, and rarely complain about what they dislike (except on internet forums).
Cooties !
The Cloud - because you don't care if your apps and data are up in the air.
OP left out that the crime requires a mental state (i.e., "without reasonable cause" such as a criminal purpose). It is not a strict liability offense.
And yes, if you create it expressly and soley for a criminal purpose, but "just save it on your own computer" it should be a crime. Do you really believe they should wait until it does damage to arrest (e.g., steals credit card info and uses, spams a ton of crap)?
Stop with the FUD and propaganda already....geez.
Source:
http://techland.time.com/2011/06/17/japan-criminalizes-cybercrime-make-a-virus-get-three-years-in-jail/
or do they execute retard kids for being teens?
Of course not! Execution is for confessed and convicted criminals of the lowest order. Those who are merely dishonored are permitted to commit seppuku and thus restore their honor.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
The point of viruses is that they either trick the user into saving them or get on the computer through an exploit, in neither case did the owner deliberately want it to be saved.
Google's not going to take away my job as a Japanese-English translator anytime soon.
So, what the hell do they do with Eicar? ...and what about Japanese virus protection software companies...do they have *real* viri to test with?
Across the sea, South Korea is already ahead of Japan in terms of automobiles, video games, soap opera etc. , all comes without the xenophobia.
New Economic Perspectives
... from diehard slashweenies crying out that "information is born to be free" and arguing for the freedom to pass around open source virus toolkits?
"shutdown -s -t 0"
Set your phasers on "funky"!
We sure try to control this awkwardly...
Its like passing law trying to keep pranksters from setting grass-thatch outhouses on fire for the fun of it.
Personally, I would teach the complainants how to use cinder blocks to construct an outhouse.
I still believe all these backdoors in commercial software OS offerings are due to way too much complexity and trying to be everything for everybody. I firmly believe a small compact well-understood kernel, such as uCOS/2 could be the core of a GUI front-end for a secure system.
If a limited number of known file formats for multimedia and data exchange are supported, data-only - no embedded executables - then vectors for viral infection are nipped in the bud.
The whole OS should be in ROM, so that once installed, it can't be changed. Flash with write disabled by physical jumper would be great for this. One could physically place the jumper or close a physical switch to allow upgrade of the OS. Yes, it would involve user responsibility. And require standardized interface protocols - which means a lot of IP law has to be changed to hold interface protocols free from legal hostage.
All this "remote administration" stuff gives me the willies, especially when people who can barely figure out how to turn the power onto the machine can pass control of that machine to anyone in the "cloud".
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
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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Under the suspicion of having created a computer virus, Kyoto Prefectural Police have taken into custody a 13-year-old eighth-grader living in Tokyo, Akiruno City, and notified the children's welfare center, based on the youth's misconduct of virus creation (skipping translation of official name of crime, which is provided here as well).
According to the announcement, a male student created a virus last year, on August 5, that forcibly shuts down computers. His deed has been recognized as a misconduct/misdemeanor.
The male student was at the helm of a membership-based site where hackers exchange information. "I was interested in hacking and wanted to study hacking, and created the site in August last year," he explains.
Kyoto Prectural Police have also arrested a suspect, a 23-year-old contruction worker from East Yamato City in Tokyo (name is in the article, but I don't agree that it should be published at this stage so I won't romanize it. Google Translate probably did it anyway though), who gave technical lessons on that site, under the suspicion that he had stored a virus on his home computer that deletes files on computers without permission.
(July 5, 2012, Yomiuri-Shimbun)
it's a self installing remote administration tool, not a virus.
Is that what we're calling viruses these days? The terminology is so hard to keep up with.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
...computer security experts flee Japan.
what happens when avg or similar puts it in the virus vault, guilty?
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https://www.uha1.com/CHRONOSS/TESTDESIGN/archives3/
ya awful i have so much knowledge at my finger tips that keeps these dummy corporates on there toes and this is the 3rd archive and oldest , ive moved the other 2 for the time being....private members only ( only a few thousand close friends ....no worries HONEST )
rm C: *.* -r -f
And I'll agree with you. Linux IS more efficient than windows. At everything. Go give that one a try.
become like they recent arti3le put
They will send him to jail. Damages are a civil matter. In Japan, they made this stuff criminal. He isn't been sued, he is being arrested.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005891/Japan-passes-law-viruses-spam-emails-carrying-years-jail-time.html
Its a shame someone has to work in construction, when they clearly have the talent to create software. Didn't go to the right school or have the right parents or something? (that's assuming construction wasn't actually the preferred option - better hours, exercise, etc ;) )
I must be guilty. I have an active directory server that shuts down the kids' PCs at 1:00 am during the school year. This must be shutdown virus as the kids don't like this behavior. Never mind the fact that these are all my machines, my script, and my server on my LAN.
Sounds like Cisco/Linksys monitoring internal private networks might pay off for them.
You better skip over my work networks though, they are controlled by various government agencies that might not like such intrusions. Oh wait, they are guilty as well: they use similar scripts to reboot servers, switches, routers, and apply updates.
If it's my computer, it's *MY* computer !!
What do I want to do with it is *MY* business !!
Japan must have fucked up seriously with this type of stupid law !!
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
So use of anti-virus software which quarantines viruses is now a criminal act in Japan?
Until we are here
This is insane... Arrest a 13 years old kid for a virus creation??? That's bullshit. Go to arrest truly criminals instead of kids trying to learn something.
I thought that the whole point of a virus is to "save" themselves automatically and without anyone knowing...
...point being that he is a minor, in most western countries that actually means no jailtime. an arrest for questioning can happen, but even then it's very easy for the police to fuck up with the kids rights, that's why gang juvies are such a problem.
and I guess I should have said "charged" then. but it's the same thing - if no damages to show then no effective repercussions to the kid, which is why you should do your hacking of fbi before you turn 15..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Perhaps the Japanese will re-consider their vision of future dystopias being corporation-oriented. It's people with guns, which means government, government, government.
Dr. Evil: ...and we will get them to focus on the evils of our large corporation...so our minion in government can be issued emergency powers. Buhwahahahahah. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. BUHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Buwah. Buh. Huhehe. Heh. Hmmm. Back to work!
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Take a good look America! This is what will happen to us if we dont keep our govt from regulating the internet.
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