RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

["Jerry Heidtke" <jheidtke@fmlh.edu>]

I didn't say anything about "throwing his ass in jail", did I?. Since
when did getting a warrant = incarceration? The evidence cited would be
enough to at least cause him to be talked to, don't you think, even in
an environment where there was some respect for civil rights and the
presumption of innocence still existed.

In the US's political climate these days, people have been "disappeared"
for months on evidence more circumstantial than that. I don't like it or
agree with it. Take it up with Herr Ashcroft.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls@utdallas.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:15 PM
To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect


--On Friday, August 29, 2003 3:47 PM -0500 Jerry Heidtke 
<jheidtke@fmlh.edu> wrote:
>
> It looks like it took the FBI 6 days to find what took 10 minutes on
> Google. Let's see, executable name is teekids.exe, here's a
> script-kiddie that goes by teekid, he's got a web site called
> t33kid.com, the whois for the domain gives his real name and address.
> Enough probable cause to get a warrant right there.
>
Wow!  I'm glad you're not in charge of the Justice Department.  I would 
*hope* you need a little more proof than that.  Everything you've listed
is 
purely circumstantial.  Wouldn't you at least like to have an IP linking

him to the seeding of the worm?  Or is the mere presence of his "handle"

enough to throw his ass in jail?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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