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Re: Blaster author identified, about to be arrested...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Fri Aug 29 16:57:02 2003

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:51:53 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.10.0.20030829085908.04fcb150@127.0.0.1>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


In article <6.0.0.10.0.20030829085908.04fcb150@127.0.0.1>, JC Dill
<nanog@vo.cnchost.com> writes
>The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like 
>infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. 
>official confirmed Thursday.

It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement
that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future".
Where is he "now" and why won't he remove himself to "somewhere a long
way away", overnight? Obviously, there is something more complex
happening here.
-- 
Roland Perry

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