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August 29, 2003Minnesota teen arrested for Blaster strainThe Seattle Times just reported that investigators arrested Jeffrey Lee Parson aka "teekid", a Minnesota teenager (age 18) who the FBI said has admitted unleashing one version of a damaging virus-like infection weeks ago on the Internet. Although this guy was caught, this isn't the original worm creator. His strain (Blaster.B) was released on my birthday, a full 2 days after the original worm was launched. But its a start. The fact teekid had the source so quickly begins the path to investigate the real source. Should only be a matter of time. Of course, the laws governing such attacks (The Computer Crime and Abuse Act) are way to weak to really deal with this behaviour. Be interesting to see the outcome of this, especially since teekid was apparently spreading the source on his t33kid.com domain (which now has it removed). *sigh* When will they ever learn. Posted by SilverStr at August 29, 2003 09:45 AMComments
Mental note: when releasing worms, do not release them on dates significant to me. Release them on dates significant to other people. Like on raskal's birthday for example :) Posted by: Arcterex at August 29, 2003 02:53 PM |
 
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