Blaster Writer Caught 1157
Henry V .009 writes "The FBI will be arresting an 18 year-old in connection with MS Blaster, reports The Washington Post." According to the article, the teen was witnessed testing the worm, and then turned in by a bystander. It's also worth noting that this is merely one of the Blaster variations. Hope whoever it was had fun, because a world of pain is waiting in store now.
Also reported... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Will be arresting... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Im guessing it was a mate of his (Score:2, Informative)
how odd, not the situation here in UK (Score:0, Informative)
If he is not free to go at any time he must have had his rights read to him.
"you are under arrest, you have the right to remain silent etc."
All police officers carry a warrant card which gives them the power of arrest.
You can be held without charge for a fixed period, 72 hours iirc. (you look it up!)
What is it called then in the States to be held involuntarily by the police while you wait to be arrested?
Curiously our police invented something called de-arresting. The used to arrest hunt-sabs on spurious charges but when we sued the arse off them they stopped. They would nick you removed you from the scene, keep you in a van for 2 hours then de-arrest you. No paperwork, usually no credible witnesses and no due process.
Fuck 'em. In the end they just made sabbing illegal full stop.
Fuck all you hunters, shooters and fishers. I hope you lose your arms in a thresher.
He is already under surveillance (Score:3, Informative)
Re:how odd, not the situation here in UK (Score:2, Informative)
Especially if you have not been read your rights. Technicalities like that can sometimes get you away scott free, guilty or not.
Usually, however, you are asked at interview if you have been read your rights.
I used to help run arrest awareness workshops. I made a great bastard copper. I've had people crying without much encouragement. If you are involved in any kind of protest group that is likely to brush with the law, practice at hostile interviews is invaluable. When people are scared their mouths tend to flap. They are conditioned by TV to start explaining *why* they committed the "crime". Cops don't care about truth and justice, they care about arrest rates. They want both parties to admit wrong doing and let the CPS/DA decide who to charge.
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More info (Score:3, Informative)
Seems that he was 'under surveillance', was caught testing the varient, and is going to be charged with writing the varient.
Not quite (Score:3, Informative)
He's innocent....Alleged writer. Innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt.
Close. He is to be presumed innocent until proven guilty; the presumption doesn't change whether or not he is actually innocent, it only affects how he is tried.
For example: all those of you sharing MP3s of Metallica's latest: you are guilty of copyright infringement (as defined by statute); however, if (when?) you are picked up on charges, you will be presumed innocent by the court until proven guilty. That presumption does not change the historical fact that you did, indeed, break the law.
/pedantry
Its MSBlaster NOT Blaster (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Will be arresting... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:how odd, not the situation here in UK (Score:1, Informative)
"It's really inhumane to thin the herd of an overpopulated free range animal which would breed itself into starvation if left unchecked."
You've not been to the UK have you?
When the poster was refering to hunting it was because they (hunters) hunt foxes most of the time. A "sab" is a hunt saboteur. A hunt is usually a big pack of dogs, some people on horses and a bunch of people on foot. It's not a "survival" weekend.
The fox will usually have been located beforehand and there has been stories in the press of foxes with cubs having had food left for them to encourage them to breed.
In short, no one's going to eat the fox, it will get chased to exhaustion and then pulled apart by the dogs. (or it might escape of course)
If you wanted to keep the natural population of foxes to a lower level, it would seem to be both more humane and less costly to simply shoot them.
However, the people on the horses are usually extremely rich, and it's them the hunts are organised for.
The only situation close to what you're thinking of is up north where the deer populations have to be culled, usually on Forestry commision land and usually by professional marksmen (or "shooters" depending on your viewpoint). There's a handbook on how the deer should be culled in order to follow the best currently believed practice.
There's also an invasive grey squirrel problem, which are somtimes culled but not exactly "hunted". Usually a bloke with an airrifle employed by the local nature reserve in order to give the native red squirels a chance.
Not sure why the parent poster was bashing fishermen. Maybe the outdoors scares him/her.
TeeKid exposed? (Score:2, Informative)
Could this be our little perp?
(from the TrojanForge.NET [trojanforge.net] archive:
"Teekid
im looking for a verfy tiny irc bot that all it does is have a web download , and a very stable udp feature , thats it
possibly open source would be good too
and
[from the Google cache [216.239.53.104] of t33kid.com]
"my little p2p worm spreads via kazaa and imesh, downloads a file from web. No biggie."
The actual page has ben.....taken down, shall we say.
Re:A witness turned him in?!? (Score:2, Informative)
Oh, you are so a script kiddie. Any serious cracker knows you gotta cook your drive, preferably in a fireplace. Don't have one? Boil it (you don't want to just cook it over the stove coils or on a sauce pan because that will just start a fire).
Here's the google cache of his website (Score:3, Informative)
-cp-
Re:A witness turned him in?!? (Score:2, Informative)