(08-28) 20:31 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday. The 18-year-old, whose name and hometown was not immediately available, was accused of writing one version of the damaging "Blaster" infection, which spread quickly across the Internet weeks ago, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/08/28/national2331EDT0797.DTL&type=printable>
In article <6.0.0.10.0.20030829085908.04fcb150@127.0.0.1>, JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com> writes
The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.
It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future". Where is he "now" and why won't he remove himself to "somewhere a long way away", overnight? Obviously, there is something more complex happening here. -- Roland Perry
Roland Perry wrote:
In article <6.0.0.10.0.20030829085908.04fcb150@127.0.0.1>, JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com> writes
The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.
It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future". Where is he "now" and why won't he remove himself to "somewhere a long way away", overnight? Obviously, there is something more complex happening here.
---> Scanning mail for operational content... -^H\^H|^H/^H-^H\ ---> Operational content: 0.00% Many accused offenders pre-arrange, often through laywers, times to surrender themselves to authorities. This is a Good Thing. A lot less dangerous to both law enforcement personnel and the accused, not to mention a lot cheaper. However, none of the artciles I have seen mention whether "teekid" surrendered himself or was picked up "off the street." But he must have known the Feds were on to him already. They questioned him, searched his house, and seized several of his computers on the 19th. -- Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387 The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact postmaster@globalstar.com
In article <3F4FC2D9.121D8FE@globalstar.com>, Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com> writes
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Next time one of your key operational staff is [mistakenly] arrested for possession [aka hosting] of some illicit material on your servers, you might be thankful that you had a small insight into the workings of the law enforcement system. -- Roland Perry
Or possibly a scare tactic so the real offender will relax. Luke -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Roland Perry Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 1:52 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Blaster author identified, about to be arrested... In article <6.0.0.10.0.20030829085908.04fcb150@127.0.0.1>, JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com> writes
The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.
It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future". Where is he "now" and why won't he remove himself to "somewhere a long way away", overnight? Obviously, there is something more complex happening here. -- Roland Perry
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.
It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future".
Hey, it's hard enough to schedule the arrests for prime news coverage; you gotta get the news teams in place for the perp. walk, write up the off-the-cuff remarks the lead Feebee is going to read, etc.. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:59:13AM -0700, JC Dill wrote:
(08-28) 20:31 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday.
The 18-year-old, whose name and hometown was not immediately available, was accused of writing one version of the damaging "Blaster" infection, which spread quickly across the Internet weeks ago, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
All the national news services got this story wrong Friday. Here in MN local news had the facts straight. this guy is not the original author. As it turns out, this guy is a small-time script-kiddie. He "wrote" an uninteresting variant of the worm which directed people to his own web site (!). I'm hearing "facts" like "[Parson's} variant of the worm infected less than 7000 computers", yet somehow he is allegedly responsible for something like $100 million in damamges to MS.
From here, it looks like this is the guy they're going to sacrifice as an "example" for everyone else.
-- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
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