 19-year-old 'fast Flux' Botnet Pioneer Agrees To Plead Guilty |
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 Jun 30 2008, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE The author of a Trojan that broke new ground in botnet circles has agreed to plead guilty to secretly infecting thousands of victims' machines so that he could steal their personal data and launch attacks on websites.
Jason Michael Milmont, 19, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, admitted to creating the so-called Nugache Worm, a Trojan that spread through AOL instant messenger and modified Limewire installation programs. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/28/nu...plea_agreement/ -------------------- "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster"  |
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Jun 30 2008, 07:02 PM
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Think of what this guy, and many others like him, could have achieved if he had put his knowledge to good instead of evil(too strong a word?). Personally, I don't think 5 years in enough.
-------------------- Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they are not out to get you.
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Jun 30 2008, 10:43 PM
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Nothing short of public hanging will do with scoundrels of that kind.
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