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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mickey1992 on March 16, 2005, 09:00:17 AM
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All of these little virus writing bastards should do time. :mad:
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WebTV malware author gets six months in prison
16/03/2005
A man who sent e-mails containing malicious programs to users of Microsoft’s WebTV internet service, reprogramming their computers to dial emergency services, has been sentenced to six months in prison, according to reports.
David Jeansonne, 44, of Metairie, Louisiana, pleaded guilty in February to two charges of intentionally damaging protected computers and causing a threat to public safety.
According to prosecutors, Jeansonne admitted that he had sent an e-mail with an attachment to approximately 20 subscribers of the WebTV (now known as MSN TV) service in July 2002. The message claimed that the attachment was a harmless computer program that, when executed, changed the display colours seen by the WebTV user on the television screen.
However, said prosecutors, the attachment actually contained a hidden computer script that reset the dial-in telephone number in the user's WebTV box to 9-1-1. Accordingly, the next time the user attempted to log in to WebTV, the computer dialled the emergency services instead of the local modem telephone number supplied to the user by WebTV to access its servers in Santa Clara.
This prompted unnecessary emergency police dispatches at numerous locations around the country, with at least 10 WebTV users reporting that the local police either called or visited their residences in response to the unnecessary 9-1-1 calls.
According to Reuters, Jeansonne was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison, followed by an additional six months home detention. Jeansonne must also pay Microsoft more than $27,100 in damages.
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just 6 mo?????:eek:
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He's lucky someone like me doesn't get his hands on him. Virus authors and other malcontents who screw with your computer(s) should be taken out and beaten with canes for the first offense and a second offense they should be hung publicly to show what happens to people who screw with your stuff.
Of course I believe that should you be convicted of murder you get one appeal and then a public hanging as well. Rapists should get a single appeal then a public castration and noodle removal....Call me what you will but I would bet hard earned money that crime would drastically slow to nearly nothing with these measures.
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Originally posted by Mickey1992
According to Reuters, Jeansonne was sentenced on Monday to six months in prison, followed by an additional six months home detention. Jeansonne must also pay Microsoft more than $27,100 in damages.
Way to go Microsoft !
You sell a system with more security hole than a swiss cheese and they give you damages :)
Btw if you are stupid enought to get a virus just 2 words :
Vae Victis
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I've made a promise to myself that if I ever get my hands on a hacker I will kick him ****less.
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They should get atleast 6 years in a REAL prison, in the same blocks as all the rapists, and murderers. The whole time in jail no touching computers.
By the time they get out they wont remeber how to write a virus.
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Here's a poor bellybutton hacker for you folks.
I used to know him when he was just a l33t h4><><0R on irc.
http://www.kimble.org/
Check Kim's pictures. I like his taste in cars tho. :)
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From what I understand prisoners don't have access to computers, and certainly not the internet. Had to call a prison librarian the other day for business, she didn't even have a computer there.
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(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/noplace.jpg)
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Siaf__csf, you really expect me to click a link to a hacker's web page?
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ROFL John.. He's a multi-millionaire now running an investment corporation.
But if you're scared, by all means stay away. :)
Should be perfectly safe though. At least I haven't had any side effects and I've visited the site many times. :)
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How about the people who just USE them? Sailor out here was arrested by the FBI after they found out he used the Loverspy program to spy on his ex-wife. He sent her a greeting card with the spyware on it and she installed it without knowing. He claims he didnt know it was illegal.
Idiot.
Who knows what else that program does besides it's advertised "features."