RE: Agobot author is a pacifist?

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

There's more evidence from this story that he's a "coward" than a "pacifist"

Do they draft 21 year-olds in Germany? 

Larry Seltzer
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/17/phatbot_suspect_bailed/

Phatbot suspect released on bail
By John Leyden, The Register, 17 May 2004

The suspected author of the Phatbot Trojan was released on bail last Friday after
spending a week in custody. German authorities arrested the 21-year-old coder - named
only as Alex G. in local reports - from Waldshut in southern Germany on 7 May at the
same time as the author of the Sasser worm, 18 year-old Sven Jaschan. Police said the
two operations were co-ordinated but unrelated.

Emails from the suspect showed he wanted to leave Germany to avoid military service.
This, combined with the seriousness of computer sabotage charges he faced, led police to
initially oppose bail. Police have now relented after the suspect agreed to surrender
his identity papers and report regularly to police.

Phatbot is a variant of Agobot, a big family of IRC bots, which can be used to steal
personal information or seize control of infected machines. Since debuting in October
2002, source code for the Agobot has been distributed on the Internet and hundreds of
versions have been created.

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