Teenage Blaster Worm Suspect Arrested

WashingtonPost.com ^ | 08/29/03 | Eleanor Abreu

[Callahan]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The FBI have arrested a Minnesota teenager suspected of making a copycat variant of the devastating Blaster Internet worm.

Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota, a middle- class suburb west of Minneapolis, was arrested on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer, according to a St. Paul district court clerk.

[Callahan]

Hard to believe this kid had time to mess around with computer viruses considering all the babes he must be pulling.

[Callahan]

Looks like he has the JelloNeck virus.

[observer5]

I hope they put a-hole in jail for at least 10 years...

[martin_fierro]

I KNEW I'd seen him somewhere before!

[martin_fierro]

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[theDentist]

A braggart. Another dullard from the "Lookatmemommy" set.

[Callahan]

More like the "lookwhoatemommy" set.

[cmsgop]

My God!!!! Grimace Lives!!!!!

[cmsgop]

I thought that was TLB?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"Hard to believe this kid had time to mess around with computer viruses considering all the babes he must be pulling."

That's no way to talk about the founder of DemocraticUnderground.com. :)

[ErnBatavia]

"The eyes have it"...(forget the guy on the right)

[Allegra]

He looks like he's a victim of "Star Trek Overload..."

[LibWhacker]

One year for every man-year of grief he caused.

[Revolting cat!]

Here he is in full uniform:

[Telit Likitis]

Also known as "Teekid" on the Net according to another source. See WWW.TrojanForge.net

[eternity]

Here they are blaming mid-east terrorists about cyber attacks that could bring down this country and some fat 18 year old kid from Minn did it. It think we have a problem here.

[LibWhacker]

Maybe now, wannabe hackers will all take a good look at this guy and say, "No, hackers ARE NOT cool."

[StatesEnemy]

Jail food will do him good.

[Young Werther]

Ship him to Thule Greenland. Provide him with a shelter, food, a library of the 1000 greatest books and an abacus! 20 years from now he will be returned to the civilization that he chose to abuse and I'm sure that he will have one hell of an abacus virus!

[Callahan]

I have this stereotype in my head the malicious hackers who cause us all trouble are nothing but fat, friendless geeks playing lightsaber in their mother's basement between lines of code. This guy does nothing to break that stereotype.