full-disclosure - Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

--On Friday, August 29, 2003 3:47 PM -0500 Jerry Heidtke 
<jheidtke@...h.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@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu