[61535] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Blaster author identified, about to be arrested...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Starrett)
Fri Aug 29 17:19:33 2003
From: "Luke Starrett" <lstarrett@nc.rr.com>
To: "'Roland Perry'" <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:17:19 -0700
In-reply-to: <sebhueGpz7T$EA4L@internetpolicyagency.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Or possibly a scare tactic so the real offender will relax.
Luke
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Roland Perry
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 1:52 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Blaster author identified, about to be arrested...
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
