Reply With QuoteHe deserves everything he got.
It is not the fact that he modifed the Blaster virus but that he could have put peoples lives at risk if it had affected the emergency or hospital services.
Teen gets 18 months in prison for wormA federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, of Minnesota was ordered to serve his time in a minimum security prison and participate in 10 months of community service.
FBI agents arrested Parson at his home in Hopkins, Minn., in August 2003, just two weeks after his "MSBlast.B" variant began to tunnel into Microsoft Windows-based computers. His variant of the worm infected approximately 48,000 computers that had not yet applied an earlier released patch.
Parson pleaded guilty last summer in a Seattle U.S. District Court to damaging federal government computers with MSBlast.B. At the time of his plea, he faced a possible prison sentence of 10 years and a $250,000 fine.
The author of the original version of the MSBlast worm has yet to be caught.
He deserves everything he got.
It is not the fact that he modifed the Blaster virus but that he could have put peoples lives at risk if it had affected the emergency or hospital services.
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Yeah, as irresponsible as it is, it's dangerous too. Of course, work of a teenager. Only if they put this much effort into studies....
What an idiot! If your going to do something like that you should at least think it through and find a way not to get caught. He deserves that prison sentence, and if anyone dies from this he should be responsible. Figures hes from America. Why are there so many dumbasses in this country! People aren't that stupid around where i live. 'Cept for the guy who is going to get the death penalty for murdering like 9 women in Connecticut. Sick, dumb, people.
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:angry: i don't understand why they do it.
this just gives teens a bad reputation. :angry:
You can't find a way out of it, bad people always get caught.Originally posted by CoolJsa14@Jan 30 2005, 10:43 AM
you should at least think it through and find a way not to get caught.*[snapback]3296[/snapback]
yep, they get too greedy or caught in too deep
I don't see a motive in this kind of act, i mean this kid didn't become rich off of this. The only thing he got was jail time.
Robbing someone in the park may seem more logical becuase the chances are if you get away you'll get money, but in this kind of act there is no return.
and with a robbery there isn't a chance you could kill as many people as if it got into a hospital.
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