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Geek Culture / FBI traces Blaster worm coder!

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MushroomHead
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 20:49
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 21:02
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I hope he lives in one of the states with the death penalty and they have a (fatal ) computer error in his commital papers

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David T
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 21:03
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Why do they make such a big deal? It's almost like a science fiction film

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Ian T
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 21:10
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I hope Bill Gates gnashed his teeth over this. If so, it'll all be worth it

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haggisman
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 21:12
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You wonder why they released this information before they even arrested him. If I was him i would be very quickly formating my Hard drive.
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Posted: 29th Aug 2003 21:27
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they make it big deal because idiots like him cause hundreds of millions of dollars of chaos on the net, from companies that can`t read their mail and close transactions, to servers that where down and lost companies money from sales they didn`t make, to people like me who are supposed to be off work sick and had to go in and innoculate their PC`s for them so that they could actualy carry on since the pc specialists who cover our network where too busy to get there until the following week, to the people who live near a reactor that shut down when the computers crashed (though why the hell they chose windows to run it I can`t imagine), idiots like that want killing, in any messy and painfull way the victims can think up, dead bloodstained virus coders...good, live ones...bad.

KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

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This guy should get the death penalty, the millions if not billions of dollaras in damage that he will never be able to pay back. Instead companies insurance will go up, they have to fix everything, they lose money.

I worked for a small IT support company that had a DOS attack, it literally almost shut down the company.

These pricks who do hacking, attacks, worms, virus, etc. deserve to be beat to death.
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koshi
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 05:46 Edited at: 30th Aug 2003 05:47
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i dont think he thought the virus would get this big. i heard on the news hes 18 years old, i dont think he should get the death penalty..

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the_winch
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 05:48
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It was odd with this one because unlike a lot of them that are spread with the help of human stupidity (opening attachments and the like) this one looks to me like it should have never affected a company if they had any kind of decent firewall. If my simple adsl router with just basic packet filtering stoped it surly any company that would lose money from a virus would have better protection than me?
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 06:19
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I thought the guy they caught was just some 18yo script-kiddie who attached some crap in the virus code that ended up getting him caught because he's an idiot - not the guy who actually wrote the virus that did some damage (if you follow - sorry, it's late )

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Quote: "You wonder why they released this information before they even arrested him. If I was him i would be very quickly formating my Hard drive."


ROFLMFAO, Yeah!!! and only another couple of million hard drives to go aswell


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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 13:11
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areested ahah

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,31500-12753530,00.html

upto 10 years

goto my website for tutorials, demo`s downloads and more
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Preston C
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 15:06
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eh, I dont think he's gonna get in trouble. Eventually the govenments gonna ask him if he wants to work for the government or the military as a professional hacker of something so he can get out of prison. That kind of skill could be used in the military.



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They didn't catch the guy who was the actual coder of the ASM for the virus (he's the talented one) they caught some fat bloated lop of crap 18yo script-kiddie who altered the original virus with some text that, of all things, mentioned his online screen name, and he also changed file name directives to stupid names like penis.sys or something - He's an idiot and he deserved to get caught just for his sheer stupidity

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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 17:16
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i just dont get why hackers make viruses that affect peoples home computers, sur emajor businesses that are doin bad stuff that you got a grudge against go for your life (as long as it doesnt mess with my finances) eg microsoft. But leave us poor sods who use a computer for fun at our homes alone, we cant spend countless amounts of money on stupid anti virus software just cause some lowlife thinks he is 133+ and puts a virus on our system, all i wanna do is play and make games. If hackers were 133+ they could design a virus that would only affect evil corporations, everyone other virus is just l4m3. I mean hacking started off as just harmless pranking using tone response phones and little noise machines to make prank calls, hacking has been blown out of proportion and computer geeks of this generation think that putting viruses on peoples machine sis what hackings about, to them i say get a life douchebags, put your skills to some good use before i get all pirate style on your behind (sorry bout the behind but apprently there is a language filter).


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Ian T
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 17:40
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He should have made something that exclusively wrecked Bill Gates' machines

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Mattman
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 18:06
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Quote: "eh, I dont think he's gonna get in trouble. Eventually the govenments gonna ask him if he wants to work for the government or the military as a professional hacker of something so he can get out of prison. That kind of skill could be used in the military."
I saw something like that in "Catch me if you can" last night. Good movie.

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MushroomHead
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 18:58
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I want to see that movie, though it's the usual hollywood lies (remember U571?). Here's what the real guy has to say about the movie :-

http://www.abagnale.com/comments.htm
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Posted: 30th Aug 2003 19:45
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catch me if you can is a very good film though,

yeah i do remember U571 - stupid yanks lol.
oops? did i say that out aloud? only joking
but to add: that film did really pess me off.


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