911 Trojan creator gets 6 months
p2pnet.net News:- A 44-year-old Louisiana man hacked his way into a six month sentence and an order to pay Microsoft more than $27,000 plus a ‘special assessment’ of $200.
David Jeansonne wrote a trojan dubbed the 9-1-1 call virus that, “prompted unnecessary police responses throughout the country in July 2002,” says the Associated Press.
He pleaded guilty in February to causing a threat to public safety and causing damage to computers, says the story, going on that Jeansonne will serve six months home detention as part of a two year period of supervised release.
He admitted the, “email attachment contained a hidden computer script that reset the dial-in telephone number in the user’s WebTV box to 9-1-1,” says lostcoders.net.
“Accordingly, the next time the user attempted to log in to WebTV, the computer dialed 9-1-1 instead of the local modem telephone number supplied to the user by WebTV to access its servers in Santa Clara.”
Jeff Parson, a 19-year-old from a “dysfunctional home” in Minnesota, was recently sentenced to a year-and-a-half in a US federal jail for “launching a denial-of-service attack in a failed attempt to overwhelm a Microsoft Web site”.
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See:-
Associated Press – Louisiana man sentenced for 9-1-1 computer virus, March 14, 2005
lostcoders.net - WebTV 911 ne’er-do-well pleads guilty, March 14, 2005
dysfunctional home – Jeff Parson goes to jail, p2pnet, January 30, 2005
March 15th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Jeff Parson, a 19-year-old from a âdysfunctional homeâ in Minnesota, was recently sentenced to a year-and-a-half in a US federal jail “launching a denial-of-service attack in a failed attempt to overwhelm a Microsoft Web site”.
This is no different than what the MPAA and RIAA get people to do to filesharers. I get ddos often but I just block the computers connecting and after a while, they give up. We need to find a way to get the MPAA and the various other org. that are ddosing p2p users in federal jail.
And another thing, Microsoft needs to be put in its place for distributing buggy software. Maybe Jeff was trying to get back at them for selling him faulty software. He should have used the excuse that “they sold me sorry software but wouldn’t take it back so I tried to get my money’s worth by ddos their systems to make them feel the pain that they have caused me”.
March 15th, 2005 at 6:13 pm
The time is right to not only charge all hackers no matter the severity of the activity but set minimum sentencing standards.
Any attack on my computer I consider to be not only serious, I consider it an invasion of my home in a technical sense.
The costs to consumers and programming organizations is in the billions of dollars annually.
To those that think this is a fun sport, I have some news for you.
As a long time user of computers dating back to my first commodore 64 I have the capability to source a spammer. a hacker or any other illegal activity.
I report all such activity no matter the severity of the attack. If more users followed my example we could eventually rid the net of these criminals.
There are a number of e mail clients that permit computer hackers to contine their criminal activity such as “sneakmail” permitting a computer user to mask his IP and do whatever he or she wants to do such as mail flooding and forwarding viruses.
The individuals named in this article should have received a more severe sentence as a deterent to others.
realcanadianloudmouth@yahoo.com (not an Anonymous Coward)