Probation urged for Sasser author

Prosecutors ask for a two-year suspended jail sentence for the man who wrote the destructive Internet worm.

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[Greg Sparkman]

Are You Kidding?!

Suspended jail sentence? Probation? 200 hours community service?
If this is the type of limp wristed punishment internet vandals can
expect, we better all just get off the net fast. This "kid" created
havoc and caused $millions, if not $billions, in damages.

I can't believe it.

This is Absurb

As long as they continue to treat these kinds of offenses against the general public as some kind of harmless teenage prank, they will continue. There is terroism plain & simple and should be fully prosecuted under the law using those international statutes. This person should be extradited and serve some long hard time in a Prison, not put on probation and allowed to write a book about his adventures.

[crsteele]

Stupid prosecutors !!

He needs locked up for about 5 years of getting his stupid little butt used by Bubba, then spend the rest of his life working off his debt to society.
I figure he caused a couple Billion in damage to society let the little loser work it off the rest of his stinking useless life.

Mark my words the next little cretin that decided to screw with everyone would at least have a clear picture of what he could look forward to.

[patt99]

What a Joke!

I would punish my child worse than that for smoking. The company that gave him a job should be boycotted. Every country that was affected by that virus should be able to bring him to trial.
Every company affected should sue him. Let's attach his check and send him home from that great job with no pay.