handsomepete's Journal: Journalism or Kicking Him While He's Down?

From this Register blurb...

FBI arrests Blaster suspect
By John Leyden
Posted: 29/08/2003 at 17:38 GMT

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Parson (AKA teekid or t33kid) reportedly admitted to FBI Special Agent Eric Smithmier that he modified the original Blaster worm and created a variant which used the filename penis32.exe. Parson, who's reportedly 6 foot 4 inches tall and weighs 320 pounds , is alleged to have run a website where viruses were available for download.

Journalism or kicking him while he's down? You make the call!

I think those numbers...

[heliocentric]

I think those numbers were provided so that that reader could imagine the size of the penis on a man with those dimensions and yet would turn loose such a virus. Note, I didn't way write, as I think playing with a virus found in the whild is a fun thing, but actually turning it loose (or at least not taking the needed steps when you know you're playing with the 'net equivalent of fire) is different.

oh, didn't mater...

[mekkab]

I think my paper (WSJ? Wash Post?) Had a picture.

This reminds me of an excerpt of some cyber-fiction out of the "Storming the Reality Studio" anthology, where there is a news report coming over the wire. That report comes over a number of times, each time with more details fleshed out, and as they come across (the fact that the victim is a woman, and a minority, and....)it seems like more and more the victim gets blamed for the crime as stereotypes are brought up. (later on, something about needing or hav

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[mekkab]

Besides, all of us computer dorks are fat, pasty, wear glasses, live in our mother's basements, and can't get dates.
QUIT FOLLOWING ME!!!



I can't. I'm your ass.

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