full-disclosure - The Jeffrey Parson criminal complaint is online

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From: gowen at swynwyr.com (Greg Owen)
Subject: The Jeffrey Parson criminal complaint is online

Richard M. Smith wrote:
> http://news.findlaw.com/nytimes/docs/cyberlaw/usparson82803cmp.pdf

Great link.

Items of particular interest:

Page 9, lines 6-8: "Since dl.t33kid.com is a copy of www.t33kid.com, it 
also can be used to capture IP addresses of compromised computers."

Isn't that reaching a bit, since the worm doesn't apparently know about 
dl.t33kid.com?

Page 10, lines 10-11: "Microsoft expended significant internal and 
external (e.g., contracted) resources to respond to the DDos attack 
launched by JEFFREY LEE PARSON."

Page 6, lines 12-14: "Within three days, Blaster had infected an 
estimated one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand computers.  By 
August 15, 2003, estimates were as high as more than one million 
infected computers."

Page 16, lines 16-18: "...at least 7,000 individual Internet users' 
computers were compromised by the variant of the Blaster worm that was 
released by JEFFREY LEE PARSON."

So, it sounds like he's responsible for 7,000 out of 100,000 to 
1,000,000 infected computers.  Unfortunately for him, he's the one 
stupid enough to use his handle in the code, so he's the one that shows 
up on CNN as the culprit for everything.

While I do not wish to give the impression that I condone or mitigate 
the damage done by Parson's variant, I suspect he's going to get held 
responsible for the overall worm while interest in finding the original 
culprits wanes.

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         gowen -- Greg Owen -- gowen@...nwyr.com
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