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This afternoon's idiotic FBI adventure.
by Decius at 12:26 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2003

] NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Washington authorities are
] investigating a teenager suspected of making a copycat
] variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm and his
] arrest is pending, law enforcement sources said on
] Friday.

I've edited this post about 1000 times trying to get the facts straight here.

The FBI's big news is that they caught some kid who renamed msblast.exe to an "anatomical reference" and rereleased it, infecting 7,000 computers...

There are various people calling for the FBI to nail this kid's ass to the wall. It pisses me off. This kid did not write the worm caused so much trouble, he released a simple variant. He is not a real threat, as far as I've been able to tell. Those 7000 machines would have gotten the other variant anyway.

Burning him at the stake accomplishes only one thing; it sends a clear message to the real worm authors that they can do these things and someone else will take the fall for them.

Slap this kid on the wrist and go find the real criminals.

RE: This afternoon's idiotic FBI adventure.
by Rattle at 6:34 pm EDT, Aug 29, 2003

Decius wrote:
] I've edited this post about 1000 times trying to get the facts
] straight here.
]
] The FBI's big news is that they caught some kid who renamed
] msblast.exe to an "anatomical reference" and rereleased it,
] infecting 7,000 computers...
]
] There are various people calling for the FBI to nail this
] kid's ass to the wall. It pisses me off. This kid did not
] write the worm caused so much trouble, he released a simple
] variant. He is not a real threat, as far as I've been able to
] tell. Those 7000 machines would have gotten the other variant
] anyway.
]
] Burning him at the stake accomplishes only one thing; it sends
] a clear message to the real worm authors that they can do
] these things and someone else will take the fall for them.
]
] Slap this kid on the wrist and go find the real criminals.

Ok, if I got my facts straight.. The kid has just been placed under house detention and is being "monitored electronically". I'm guessing that means one of those leg band things that can tell if he leaves his house.

I look at it this way. The FBI has captured a real live script kiddie. They have tagged him, and released him back into his natural environment for further study. It almost sounds scientific when you put it like that.