*************positive note for him*************

The blaster worm could have been easily avoided if half you idiots knew what you were doing with a computer when you bought one and threw a broadband connection on there. When it comes to end users, they’re either too paranoid or not paranoid enough. Its the ones who thought “Aw it’ll never hit me” that are whining and causing this kid to become the scapegoat for the entire thing – HE DIDN’T WRITE THE PROGRAM – HE MODIFIED IT (But fuck finding the original author right? We’ve got a fat shut-in we can pile all the blame on!). There has been a free downloadable program to clean the blaster worm ever since the first variant hit, you retards would just rather take it to a pc shop and pay them $150 for 5 minutes of pointing, clicking, and typing that you could of done if you had half the IQ of your cofee mug. The 3 years won’t equate to shit with good time, its just the millions of dollars that were “lost” that is bullshit – stupid office emails, time-wasting flash games, and secretive porn browsing should never equate to money. If you don’t want a virus or a worm protect your neck bitches – don’t get mad when your completely open computer gets a worm and you can’t get on Ebay for a few fuckin days. Prosecute the real criminal here, not the only one that the government could find soon enough for people to still give a shit.

Oh and yeah that kid’s getting his donut poked for sure.

The blaster worm could have been easily avoided if half you idiots knew what you were doing with a computer when you bought one and threw a broadband connection on there. When it comes to end users, they’re either too paranoid or not paranoid enough. Its the ones who thought “Aw it’ll never hit me” that are whining and causing this kid to become the scapegoat for the entire thing – HE DIDN’T WRITE THE PROGRAM – HE MODIFIED IT (But fuck finding the original author right? We’ve got a fat shut-in we can pile all the blame on!). There has been a free downloadable program to clean the blaster worm ever since the first variant hit, you retards would just rather take it to a pc shop and pay them $150 for 5 minutes of pointing, clicking, and typing that you could of done if you had half the IQ of your cofee mug. The 3 years won’t equate to shit with good time, its just the millions of dollars that were “lost” that is bullshit – stupid office emails, time-wasting flash games, and secretive porn browsing should never equate to money. If you don’t want a virus or a worm protect your neck bitches – don’t get mad when your completely open computer gets a worm and you can’t get on Ebay for a few fuckin days. Prosecute the real criminal here, not the only one that the government could find soon enough for people to still give a shit.

Oh and yeah that kid’s getting his donut poked for sure.

He’s a kid who did a dumb thing. Oddly enough, kids do that sort of thing. This one just happened to step on YOUR foot, but he stepped on mine too. But unlike you, I don’t think that a mistake we make, deliberate or otherwise, as a teenager should ruin the rest of our lives.

He wasn’t defending the accuseds weight, or even saying that you should be lenient in the court because of it. He said, with great truth, that anyone who chooses to condemn him solely because he’s overweight should be shot in the head and dragged through the streets to be eaten by dogs. You included.

Him being a “fat-ass” has nothing to do with the reality of his crime, but you and your ilks absolute need to somehow make his weight an issue in this only points out your prejudice and ignorance. It removes every semblance of credibility and makes you sound more like redneck vigilantes than sensible individuals. If you go to a “hacker” convention, you’ll note that there are more tragically skinny people there than overweight people. Most of the true “security experts” I know are undernourished, as they tend to ignore things like “food” and “sleep” in their many-houred computer excursions.

Now, why don’t you stop typing on that computer. There’s a stall that’s clogged on the third floor, you should probably get on it.

The cost to business in the billions? My bullshit detector comes out and immediately smokes and explodes. Show me the numbers. Show me the losses in hard copy, so I can add them up. Half of companies these days nearly RELY on viruses so they can pad their numbers in quarterly reports. Companies make up losses, and the losses are often arbitrary and exaggerated. The cost is entirely a made up number, and can be any number the company cares to offer. Until a company offers hard proof of exactly where and how the losses were achieved, I will ignore their bleating.

Man, as soon as I stop laughing at you, I’ll post a response.

Whew, all better.

Sayings that hackers are the “lowest form of criminal in the world” just highlights your middle class upbringing. You are unable to FATHOM true criminal behaviour. People selling kids to paedophiles willing to pay? Mean and women who chop up other people and bury them in their garden? Drug dealers trying to get kids hooked on crack?

But hackers are bad, because they might cost you a couple hundred dollars to get someone to clean off your computer. Or maybe you’re talking about the inflated financial numbers that companies pretend to lose because of viruses? You know, I don’t know a single one of these viruses that impacted our financial transactions, but I did get 30 less “FW: FUNNY JOEK!” emails at work, so maybe I should have paid HIM? But oddly, even though most of the companies I work with made the same dollar amount that they made on every other day, they still assumed they lost 15-20% just because their email was off and on for a couple days.

The vast scale of your business and social ignorance frightens me, and the fact that puppet peons like you are the ones doing most of the voting in this country is enough to make me sick.

Terrorism is use of violence, or the threat of violence, to create a climate of fear in a given population. With the intent to effect political change on either a local or an international scale

That boy does not fit violence, nor did he intend to change anything. The virus was just for annoyance…

Let me school you some more. If you want to compare his code to terrorism……why wont you look up cyberterrorism have you ever heard of that…read it you uneducated punk.

Very interesting how you want everyone to think about the plan to disrupt wall st….has that ever happened? NO it has not!!! So how can you say this nerd did the same thing when that issue never happened, there is no actual documentation that the plan was going to carry out. Not even the government has such proof. As far as I remember there is no code involved….

I had never seen a computer virus affect people’s lives either. Have you? I doubt it. Let’s make something up, since you are good at it. Lets say a virus creeps into a hospital, infected a breathing machine that is currently used on a patient. The virus caused the machine to increase and accelerate causing the patient’s health to damage worse… Now that will affect a life…but has that happened? Hell no!!

As far as peoples ability to make a living? Because of viruses there are lots of jobs. Microsoft has a section to handle bugs and possible deficiencies. All the antivirus companies, can you imagine the population in the companies? How about the outside people who gets paid to hack into systems? Look at you database developer, have you ever been called into work because of unexpected activity within systems? More hours for you right?

Do not reply to this if you cannot make any sense.

Bravo, sir. You know what’s good for the future of America.

It’s people like you who respond with malice and little reasoning that cause issues in this country. You take hard edged attitudes to crimes, and believe that ‘big business’ should be protected over social interest. There is no ’social interest’ in incarcerating a teenage boy. Rather than deter him from crime, it will only make his ability to live a normal life completely impossible, and given the choice between life as a janitor and illegally hacking systems to obtain credit card numbers, I myself would probably choose the latter. He should either get probation, or we should change the legal system to have non-violent crimes such as this one stricken from your record once your time is served.

Of course, this would be of little use to him, since the media has thoroughly plastered his name and face everywhere. Society working together to destroy the rest of a mans 60 years for his lack of judgement in his youth. What a great country we live in.

If you are so good at writing code, then appreciate your gift and use it wisely. I have no sympathy for this nut. He deserves to be taken down and severly punished. These issues are not funny. They affect people’s lives and ability to make a living.

Database Application Developer in Nevada.

Hey buddy… Go run some backups.

Y’know, it’s funny, all these Blasters and Melissas and Sircams… and I haven’t been infected with any one of them. Maybe it’s ’cause I’m lucky, or maybe it’s just cause I’m not a complete dried-up twit.

If you aren’t competent enough to cross the street right, and you get run over by some poor schmo while you’re idiotically jaywalking, it ain’t the driver’s fault.

First of all, to a previous comment, how can you compare a computer program that would cause another computer to temporary fault…..to a first degree violent murder!!

Second what is your definition of “punishment that fit the crime”..is there one?

As for the drug crime being harsh enough? Lets think here, there is a small town in texas called Tulia, people are just selling drugs and not being stopped by the police, look it up if your interested. But as for this subject? again how can you compare a computer program that would cause another computer to temporary fault to a drug that will injure a body leading to death in the future.

Yes he is young, he probably knew what he was doing at the moment, after all computer programming can be a challenge changing the syntax to do what you want it to do. Yes he is intelligent for his age, however, he does not know his future ahead of him. Lets say he did not get caught. in the future he could be the key to a technology that will assist medical professors to finding a cure for cancer. Or maybe he can launch a generation of computerized vehicles that do not pollute at all, and not even requires an oil change. I dont know, you dont know, not even he knows. The only people that can see where he can lead too are his PARENTS!!(HINT HINT)

He should be spared, but of course there will always be companies that claim thousands of dollars loss (without proof, or any documentation stating that). For example lets look at a sentence stated above.

“The government estimates Parson’s version alone inundated more than 48,000 computers.”

How in the hell can government count 48,000 computers. What ever happen a week later or less?

“A patch was established and all computers were back to working perfectly, none were permanent.”(my personal statement off the record)

Does that sound about right?

I have seen childeren, kids, teenagers with great mind power through out my life that have done some wrong. Them same people have grown, realized their capacity and now they are using it making a difference in the world, and two are in the government. The parents are his only hope for pointing the right direction. Parents should be the ones to guide him to success. I say give him a slap on the hand, give him the scare speach with some community service. FACE slap the parents, and inform them to continue the guidence to his success.

Let me ask you something. When people first buy a car, they read the owners manual for maintenance info, or what not. Since virus have been out longer than anyone can count their years. Why wont you read info like this link when you first buy a computer

http://depts.washington.edu/trio/train/howto/tools/antivirus.shtml

White-collar crime is OK. You can add it to your cv. But attacking the RIAA, Micro$oft, the MPAA is SERIOUS man!

I agree completely. I think the death penalty is more appropriate.