Re: [News] 'Windows Puppeteer' Hijacks 400,000, Gets 5 Years Behind Bars

[Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Handover Phist wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz :
>
> > US 'botmaster' jailed for nearly 5 years for computer hacking
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US computer hacker was jailed for nearly fiveyears
> > | for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers,
> > | and infecting them with malicious software.
> > `----
> >
> >        http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060509/tc_afp/usjusticecomputers
> >
> > As usual, the article does not mention that hijacking was possible due to
> > critical bugs in the Windows operating system.
>
>
> He deserves more jail time, crappy OS hijacked or not.

and in other news: another hacker was given the keys to the planet after 
hijacking said same systems and installing Linux on them...

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