full-disclosure - Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect

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Message-ID: <200308300056.h7U0uUm8012307@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Authorities eye MSBlaster suspect 

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:47:22 CDT, Jerry Heidtke said:

> 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

No, given that it only hit 7,000 systems, it probably took 5 days before they
got a copy of the binary and somebody who was computer forensics trained and
not allocated to the main Blaster or Nachi work, and get them to the same place
at the same time....

And then a very long afternoon documenting the steps they took using Google.
Remember that it's OK for *us* to say "yeah, that's probably him".  The FBI
does it, they have to make *really* sure they aren't googling for the wrong
'teekid' - first they have to convince a judge they have the right guy, and if
they still screw up and bash down the door of a 97-year-old woman who dies of a
heart attack of fright (yes, that DID happen recently), they end up with
serious egg on their faces.

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