full-disclosure - Agobot author is a pacifist?

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From: etomcat at freemail.hu (Feher Tamas)
Subject: Agobot author is a pacifist?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/17/phatbot_suspect_bailed/

Phatbot suspect released on bail
By John Leyden, The Register, 17 May 2004

The suspected author of the Phatbot Trojan was released on bail last 
Friday after spending a week in custody. German authorities arrested 
the 21-year-old coder - named only as Alex G. in local reports - from 
Waldshut in southern Germany on 7 May at the same time as the 
author of the Sasser worm, 18 year-old Sven Jaschan. Police said the 
two operations were co-ordinated but unrelated.

Emails from the suspect showed he wanted to leave Germany to avoid 
military service. This, combined with the seriousness of computer 
sabotage charges he faced, led police to initially oppose bail. Police 
have now relented after the suspect agreed to surrender his identity 
papers and report regularly to police.

Phatbot is a variant of Agobot, a big family of IRC bots, which can be 
used to steal personal information or seize control of infected 
machines. Since debuting in October 2002, source code for the Agobot 
has been distributed on the Internet and hundreds of versions have 
been created.