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Dazu eine neue Meldung (naja, Glosse) von Rob Rosenberger von VMyths.
:-) RB
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Vmyths.com Virus Hysteria Alert
{8 May 2004, 13:10 CT}
CATEGORY: Historical perspective on recent hysteria
http://Vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=280&page=3
A Reuters newswire says "German police have arrested an 18-year-old man
suspected of creating the 'Sasser' computer worm, believed to be one of
the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage... [A police
spokesman] said the suspect admitted to programming the worm." See
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4928653 for the full text of the newswire.
In our previous Hysteria Alert, we predicted the fearmongers at mi2g
will soon slap an astronomical dollar value on the Sasser worm. The
U.S. alone will account for a few billion of mi2g's guesstimate. This
leads us to ponder an interesting question:
Will the Justice Department try to extradite the author of the Sasser
worm? Will he stand trial on American soil for a multi-billion-dollar
crime?
If history is a guide, Sasser's author will never appear before a U.S.
judge. Consider the following:
1) U.S. feds never sought extradition for Jan de Wit (aka
"OnTheFly"), who released the Kournikova virus in February 2001. A
Dutch court convicted him for the crime but he remains free of a U.S.
indictment.
2) U.S. feds never sought extradition for any of the suspects behind
the ILoveYou virus in May 2000. Reonel Ramones, Onel de Guzman, and
Irene de Guzman remain free of a U.S. indictment in the Philippines
despite the successful completion of a much-publicized worldwide
manhunt.
3) U.S. feds never sought extradition for Mike Calce (aka
"Mafiaboy"), a then-14yr-old hacker who masterminded an e-commerce
attack that (supposedly) very nearly destroyed Amazon.com, Yahoo!, eBay,
CNN, and other U.S.-based firms in February 2000. Calce was found
guilty in Canada for the crime but remains free of a U.S. indictment.
4) U.S. feds never sought extradition for acknowledged Chernobyl
virus writer Chen Ing-Hau for "destroy[ing] thousands" of U.S.
government, military, corporate, academic, and personal PCs in April
1999. He remains free of a U.S. indictment in Taiwan.
FBI agents traditionally provide "evidence" to other countries to help
them prosecute virus/worm authors ... but that's as far as it goes.
Remember this when you read stories about the arrest of Sasser's
creator. Vmyths predicts he won't be extradited to America.
Remember your history lessons. Stay calm. Stay reasoned. And stay
tuned to Vmyths.
Rob Rosenberger, editor
http://Vmyths.com
(319) 646-2800
CATEGORY: Historical perspective on recent hysteria
http://Vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=280&page=3
--------------- Useful links ------------------
Remember this when virus hysteria strikes
http://Vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=31&page=1
Common clichés in the antivirus world
http://Vmyths.com/resource.cfm?id=22&page=1
False Authority Syndrome
http://Vmyths.com/fas/fas1.cfm
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