Re: UK: Hacker Dodges Prison Term

["Alex Shipp \(elist\)" <elist-alex () starlabs net>]

I was an expert witness on this case. My guess (and its just a guess)
is that because the viruses he wrote had negligible impact they
were discounted in sentencing.

Certainly he created the viruses, but this is not a crime. Whether
he actually released them in any meaningful way is more debatable.

We never saw any copies of these viruses in the wild, ever.
Given the size of our catchment base, this either means:
    1) he never released them
    2) he released them in a tiny way, but the social engineering
       was crap,so no one ever propagated them
    3) he released them, but there was a bug which stopped replication
    4) something else

My money is on (1)

Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Col" <colweb () gmail com>
To: <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Hacker Dodges Prison Term


On 11/8/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> It seems to me that he didn't do anything too terrible. And therefore
> doesn't deserve prison.

He still created a virus or two and released them. Bad enough in my
opinion. But then again, prison is a waste of time in this country
(anyone see panorama last night?).

Col.
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