What a load of crap!

[DELTREE]

What do you make of this??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050708/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Søul]

Not good. He should've at least done some time in juvi hall. This will send a message to all the juvenile malicious hackers that they'll get off with a slap on the wrist if they're caught. 30-60 hours of community service. C'mon!

I wonder if we'll see an increase of attacks just because of this judgement?

[oldhermit]

Modern day justice.
After landing his triple digit job, his sentence is to be tortured daily by the incompetence that surrounds him.

[Undertaker02]

The German court, which tried Jaschan behind closed doors because of his age at the time of the offense, said in its ruling that he "acted out of a need for recognition" and not for commercial aims.

so if he addmitted that he set the sasser and netsky bugs free on a fee per infection basis for , welungs computer emporium.. this would have been a commercial gain?.. cool no thought is taken in the court for the commercial Loss.. the family's home computers that were disrupted..
What if he had used that defence for going into a bank with a plastic replica gun.. not to steal the money.. just to wave the gun around, and hurl a few threats for just recognition..

[BIG JOHN]

Obviously they should have made an example out of him. Sure didn't do much to put the fear into these hackers. BJ

[Sidewinder]

The jerk should have had to do some time. Sidewinder

[liam858]

Sasser snarled hundreds of thousands of computers, hitting one-third of Taiwan's post office branches, delaying 20 British Airways flights and forcing British coast guard stations to use pen and paper for charts normally generated by computer. German prosecutors said damages ran into the millions of dollars.

That's just a stupid example to set, after causing so much damage he got off with community service, thats just crap, so people will be thinking its okay now as long as you stay inside certain boundaries you won't even get sent down.


Liam

[bistro]

Poor baby.....just needed a little attention. Let's all have a Pity Party for him. I'll stuff the cake down his throat....

This was NOT due justice. I honestly hope that judge and the court staff gets hit with a major hack/virus that crashes their computer systems...that just might make that judge change his mind about being so lenient next time.

I'm sure this kid was all contrite before the judge....and then laughing his head off all the way home. Now he's a big hero to every script kiddie in Europe. I'm afraid as result of this we're going to see a big surge of viruses coming out of there.

[liam858]

I'm afraid as result of this we're going to see a big surge of viruses coming out of there.

Ditto,

14 May Melissa author sentenced and fined again
David L Smith, the creator of the Melissa Word macro worm, has received a 10 year prison sentence in a state court, but has been told he will be out in less than 2 years.

15 Mar 2005 Man jailed for Trojan horse which made 911 nuisance calls,
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to six months in prison for infecting WebTV users with a Trojan horse that called the emergency services.

23 Jul 2003 Virus writer's appeal fails - Simon Vallor's two year jail sentence stands
Simon Vallor, the Welsh virus writer who infected thousands of computers, has failed to have his prison sentence cut on appeal.

There needs to be some revision of the law and some changes made for sentencing in virus programming and distribution, if Microsoft and Sophos etc offer Millions of dollars reward then it must be a pretty inportant principle to them that these people are found, and when they are they get a couple of months in prison as punishment, or in this case community service.

Liam