Hacker Suspect Bragged of Exploits

Here's the little idiot giving us all the email trouble...

[netguy]

Jason Lee Parson, an 18-year-old Minnesotan, was arrested Friday in connection with the Blaster worm, bragging of his exploits on his own Web site.

Article on his arrest:
[washingtonpost.com...]

His website has been pulled by the FBI, but can be seen in G's cache:
[216.239.53.104...]

[killroy]

Hm, The kid didn't do anything else then any other infected computer user, bar hex editing some code. The spreading happened in exactly the same way. This would indeed make everybody else guilty. In fact by this logic, the original virus author might only be guilty of infecting one computer, and damages caused directly by that. And millions of users and sysadmins would be guilty of dozends of counts of infecting other systems.

Hmm... Are you responsible for deaths if you drop your gun, somebody finds it and shoots people? I honestly don't know, but perhaps seen from this light the sys admins are a bit part-guilty too.

SN

PS: I never even saw either of the recent viruses/worms anywhere near my network. I lost cash from downed ad income as internet usage slowed. But I made a few pennies fixing other peoples computers and disinfecting them.

[MonkeeSage]

The point is intent. The kid intended to do harm by it. It was premeditated. Heck it probably took a few hours of setting break points and stepping through raw assembly dumps. Come on. That's something they pay people to do. Obviously this person was motivated. And part of that motivation invovled harming other's property, and making many businesses lose much money. Mabye he was a dufus and didn't know how to infect more than 50 computers, that isn't the point--the point is that he intended to do alot worse. A person driving down the road homicidally trying to run people down, is not less guilty if he hits a tree by mistake. He wasn't aiming for the tree--he was aiming for the people!

There is an old addage that goes "If you're old enough to do the crime..."

Jordan

[WebStart]

<The kid didn't do anything else then any other infected computer user, bar hex editing some code..... Are you responsible for deaths if you drop your gun, somebody finds it and shoots people? <

If that's even the case: There is a matter of intent, and the kid's intent seems clear from his own statements. But I don't think your statement accurately portrays what he was found guilty of (even by a lenient judge).