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What message are we sending?
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:41:34 -0400
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:27:14 -0500 From: Scott Davis <sdavis () sdf lonestar org> Subject: What message are we sending? To: dave () farber net User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=7.5 tests=SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2 version=2.31 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Filtered-At: eList eXpress <http://www.elistx.com/>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by linc.cis.upenn.edu id h7U2RqpQ000253* Please remove my ID and email address if you post. Thanks! Dave, I cannot express the joy I felt this morning upon hearing that the feds were poised to swoop down on the accused (and admitted) facilitator of the Blaster worm. My thoughts quickly jumped to those of finding the cretin who wrote SoBig. For the first time in eight days, something positive is happening for me. I am a manager for a very large ISP and communications company that everyone on this list has heard of. For the past 8 days alone, our little office has spent well over a million dollars in money and resources, paying for staff to assist our customers, work with vendors on resolutions for excessive network traffic, and carry on other unscheduled business activities that would not have been taking place otherwise. My serotonin rush became a slow morphine drip later in the day when I became aware that the accused (and admitted) writer of this worm was sent home to live under house arrest for a while. >From CNN: "With this arrest, we want to deliver a message to cyber-hackers here and around the world," said U.S. Attorney John McKay in Seattle. "Let there be no mistake about it, cyber-hacking is a crime. ... We will investigate, arrest and prosecute cyber-hackers." What message are we sending, Dave? Am I far off base here to assume that someone who has admitted to doing what he is accused of, causing untold millions of dollars to be spent on <whatever>, and causing a major network event, which ultimately is affecting the global infrastructure of the network, that you can just go home and wait until the feds call you and tell you to come to trial? (yes...as long as you don't use the Internet while under house arrest). This social outcast admitted to facilitating a major network event which has costs untold dollars and had an impact on the critical infrastructure of this country...and they let him go home. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. I understand the US Constitution and the laws we live by that state you are innocent until proven guilty. But pardon my conservatism when I say that if they had enough evidence and probable cause to arrest Jeff Parson for this crime, they had enough evidence and probable cause to put him in solitary confinement (read: Kevin Mitnick) until trial. While I think Kevin's incarceration was excessive in nature, whats good for the goose is good for the gander. At an absolute minimum, why isn't the accused in a cell SOMEWHERE? I wonder if this worm author was from the middle east or had a Muslim name if he'd be under house arrest or in a 3'x5' air pocket UNDER the jail. I suspect the latter. Just some thoughts from the cynical side... Thanks
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