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A Minnesota teenager known online as "teekid" was arrested and placed on electronic monitoring Friday for allegedly unleashing a version of the Blaster computer worm that infected thousands of computers.
More info here:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/20...171226-ap.html
I hope they took his computer away :(
How much you want to bet that they won't catch the original programmer? (I hope they do, but he/she was not dumb enough to put their name in their, nor to have it check in and update from their website. Which means they may have something going for themselves.)
TeeDub ..... TeeKid. Hmmmmmmm.
If I can confess here, I have always had the urge to do this with viruses... modifying them and setting them free. I'd be smarter than these kidz were, instead of using my system to unleash the bugs, I'd go to an out of town Library or a local one, or use Kazaa to do it and name the file Britney Spears.
Fuelm@n:
tsk, tsk, tsk.
We use our powers for good, not evil.
Too late Fuelm@n
Someone has already done that one, had Britney Spears through a few months ago. Something about her sox, no wasn't her sox, I think I got the spelling wrong. :o BF
That is very funny. :D Glad you resisted the urge tho.Quote:
Originally posted by Fuelm@n
If I can confess here, I have always had the urge to do this with viruses... modifying them and setting them free. I'd be smarter than these kidz were, instead of using my system to unleash the bugs, I'd go to an out of town Library or a local one, or use Kazaa to do it and name the file Britney Spears.
Will either person actually spend time in jail though - I'm guessing not, they'll probably get some lame suspended sentence.
Taking their computers won't do much good either as they'll probably just go to an internet cafe or their mates house.
If they actually carried through and put them in jail for 10 years with no computer access, then maybe it might scare a few people into not doing it.
But then we'll probably get into arguments about human rights and the right to using a computer whilst in prison for education and re-habilitation.
He pleaded innocent.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6984
Jeffrey Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minn., was arrested Aug. 29 and faces one count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer. The maximum sentence is 10 years in prison. Parson said little in court, other than to acknowledge his identity and tell the judge "Good afternoon." Trial was tentatively set for Nov. 17 in Seattle. Parson has been placed under home detention, but is allowed to attend school.
So, I never screwed up when I was a teenager. Did you?
If I could I would hire that kid. Like my father always said, if you need a college education, hire one.
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Originally posted by Leurgy
So, I never screwed up when I was a teenager. Did you?
I wouldn't. He's not college educated, to start; and coders have told me he's not that great at it (coding). People who possess the knowledge to do that and more and have the smarts to not unleash massive negative impact on the world have a great deal more of my respect. The guys who discovered the exploit have more of my respect.Quote:
If I could I would hire that kid. Like my father always said, if you need a college education, hire one.
btw, nice sig. :D in the same spirit, I once had a white hat for my monitor.
He's pleading not guilty, but I saw the Google cache of his web page (it's gone now) and it had several viruses there for download. So I don't think he's quite as innocent and hard done by as he's now pretending. In fact it'll be interesting to see how he's going to explain that web page away.
Personally I hope they throw the book at him, I think a good stiff jail sentence might send a message to a few others of his ilk.
Actually, it was source code available for download. It wasn't like he was putting software-package-like executables into the hands of anyone who was looking to cause some trouble - as opposed to, say, the author of Sub7. And he had a bunch of links to educational virus/antivirus sites. Half the links no longer work, and none of the downloads.Quote:
Originally posted by SuperSparks
He's pleading not guilty, but I saw the Google cache of his web page (it's gone now) and it had several viruses there for download. So I don't think he's quite as innocent and hard done by as he's now pretending. In fact it'll be interesting to see how he's going to explain that web page away.
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache...mcJ:t33kid.com
My guess is he was a dabbler who made an executable with the theory of what it could do and then foolishly let it bounce right out of his hands and grow into a monster. Young people just don't realize how much trouble and damage they can cause by creating something and being careless and irresponsible with it. I don't think he did this out of maliciousness.
While he shouldn't get off easily, Microsoft shares the blame here and their actions (or more specifically, lack thereof) deserve at least equal repercussions. That said, they probably will make an example of him and ignore the origin of this issue.Quote:
Personally I hope they throw the book at him, I think a good stiff jail sentence might send a message to a few others of his ilk.
Hmm teen pregnancy springs to mind - but that's a total digression from the topic and can be left well alone.Quote:
Originally posted by VerLux
Young people just don't realize how much trouble and damage they can cause by creating something and being careless and irresponsible with it
A bunch of different things spring to mind, I agree. Young drivers are very dangerous, not only because they aren't yet skilled at driving but because they don't realize how dangerous a car can be. I once knew a kid (16) who liked to try to hack people's computers. Do I believe he was deliberately trying to hurt people? I think he had no real idea of what he was doing. He simply lacked the life experience to have any idea of the consequences - what it was like to be on the receiving end, what the real-life damage was, and what it was like to try to clean up the aftermath. Over time I've personally known several young hackers like that. I've also known a couple who were very deliberately malicious, wanting to cause harm to large numbers of people. One told me he was going to take down a website for revenge against its users :rolleyes: - he was 19. There is a significant difference in intent, but the consequences are the same.Quote:
Originally posted by Nix
Hmm teen pregnancy springs to mind - but that's a total digression from the topic and can be left well alone.
He simply lacked the life experience to have any idea of the consequences - what it was like to be on the receiving end.
The above is a quote from Verlux, and I would have quoted him properly, if only I could find the darn quotation marks on this laptop.
Verlux, that was spoken very eloquently.
thank you :)Quote:
Originally posted by Leurgy
Verlux, that was spoken very eloquently.
honestly i think if hew didnt have malicious intent, but was just curious and wanted to learn then yes let him go not without some form of punishment tho, i thik its great to see kids wanting to learn more and more about computers, but some just dont have the responsibilty requiremtns
They caught one more. A juvenile in the US.
"The Justice Department called the worm a "variant of the Blaster computer worm." However, the statement describes a different worm--the Randex.E worm, which uses the same flaw as the MSBlast worm to install a Trojan horse program known as SDBot. The program connects to the Internet relay chat (IRC) system and awaits commands from the attacker."
http://news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5083096.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/...uvenile_1.htmlQuote:
Another person has been arrested in relation to the Blaster worm that infected computers worldwide last month. This time the individual is a juvenile, prosecutors in Seattle said Friday, which in the U.S. typically means under the age of 18.
The suspect allegedly was involved with the release of the "RPCSDBOT" variant of the Blaster worm, according to the statement. The worm infected computers and attempted to shut down a Microsoft Web site, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Several weeks in juvie hall by the look of it :mad:
Sentenced.
Man Sentenced for Releasing Computer Worm (Blaster)
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/l...n/10760338.htm
"A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1 1/2 years in prison for unleashing an Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003. He will have to pay restitution to Microsoft and to people whose computers were affected. The amount will be determined at a hearing next month."
Clearly American judges are just as likely to fall for any old sob story as British ones :mad:
I really don't see that sentence being very much of a deterrent at all.