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p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft has abandoned its attempt to get half-a-million-dollars in “restitution” money from Jeffrey Lee Parson who admitted turning his own version of the Blaster Internet worm loose in 2003, bundling it with a back-door application so he could get into infected computers.
The Microsoft site was in the line of fire and went down for about four hours.
Parson, now 19, has already been sentenced to a year and a half in a federal jail and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, topped off by three years of “supervised release”.
Instead of the $500,000 payment, Parson can, “work it off with an extra 225 hours of community service that won’t involve computers,” says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"We’re pleased this prosecution has been fully resolved with a prison sentence and appropriate restitution," Tim Cranton, senior attorney with Microsoft’s internet safety enforcement team is quoted saying.
The additional community service, "will have a stronger impact on him in serving his sentence," he adds.
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See:-
Blaster Internet worm - Jeff Parson goes to jail, p2pnet, January 30, 2005
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Sentence modified for Microsoft hacker, March 30, 2005
March 30th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Microsoft has yet to send me a single dime for all the spam sent from computers running their insecure operating systems. I do not run Microsoft’s crap on my computers therefore, I have not been forced to absolve them of responsibility for any attack.
April 2nd, 2005 at 4:37 pm
yeah but ms has eula that protect them. Jeffrey forgot to add one to the virus.