Romanian Net Worm Suspect Faces Stiff Charges
Thursday, September 4, 2003 by IPlural | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
BUCHAREST/LONDON (Reuters) - Fifteen years behind bars for a crime that took but 15 minutes to execute.
This is the maximum prison sentence facing 24-year-old Romanian Dan Dumitru Ciobanu, suspected by authorities of developing the low-grade Internet worm "Blaster.F" that security experts suspect took him maybe a quarter of an hour to write.
The penalty once again has stoked the debate about appropriate sentencing for a crime that until recently was dismissed by law enforcement officers as a relatively benign prank by tuned-in teenagers trying to prove a point.
But with a wave of increasingly strong Internet bugs, including last month's original Blaster worm and the Sobig.F virus, inflicting billions of dollars in damage, a zero-tolerance sentiment has begun to emerge.
In Romania, a person found guilty of the new cybercrime law, which covers online fraud, hacking and virus-writing, faces a sentence of three to 15 years, more than twice the maximum sentence for rape.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0JOAT4XJNLSM4CRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&storyID=3389320
Satans Child
Reply #3 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:13 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:13 PM
I'm with Zodiaq and Kona on this .... I think they should make examples out of all of them.
messybuu
Reply #4 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:41 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:41 PM
Although I wish Romania would have harsher sentences for some of those other crimes mentioned, I do think fifteen years is perfectly fine.
Jafo
Reply #5 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:50 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:50 PM
Ah....I say life for Virii creators.....[and death for rapists].....but then I'm a moderate....
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Reply #7 Thursday, September 4, 2003 5:55 PM
Reply #7 Thursday, September 4, 2003 5:55 PM
What irritates me is the fixation on the jackasses who modded the root virus. I don't care about some idiot in Romania who went after his teacher or some moron in the US who coded his handle as part of it.
Get the person (people) who started it in the first place and make an example of them.
IPlural
Reply #8 Thursday, September 4, 2003 6:00 PM
Reply #8 Thursday, September 4, 2003 6:00 PM
each in time...
The creator might be one that is never found out.
The creator might be one that is never found out.
phobe62
Reply #9 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:46 PM
Reply #9 Thursday, September 4, 2003 7:46 PM
I don't understand why anyone would want to inflict damage on innocent users. They ought to send the guy to a mental institution after he serves his fifteen years.
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Reply #1 Thursday, September 4, 2003 3:28 PM