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From: Slarty Bartfast (Slarty_at_Bartfast.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:00:10 +1000

This is better than making them national hero's and rewarding them with good
IT jobs like they do in 3rd World Countries.

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- A German teenager who created the Sasser worm that
disrupted computers around the world in May has been charged with computer
sabotage, prosecutors said.

Sven Jaschan, 18, was arrested after telling officials his original
intention was to create a virus, "Netsky A," that would combat the "Mydoom"
and "Bagle" viruses, removing them from infected computers.

He developed several versions of the Netsky virus and, after modifying it,
created Sasser, which raced around the world exploiting a flaw in Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows operating system.

Computer sabotage carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. 

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Slarty Bartfast

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