Rubbermaid bot master sentenced to 41 months

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Anonymous Coward

Article title #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 20:32 GMT

I read this hoping for a story about some bizarre latex-cyborg brothel ring...

Anonymous John

I for one #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 21:44 GMT

welcome our new Rubber overbotmaster.

Steve Lupton

Crazy sentence... #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 21:44 GMT

Bet you he would have got less time if he had stolen a car and killed someone in a hit-and-run whilst intoxicated...

Jack Evans

Prison Bitch #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 21:44 GMT

I am sure He will be part of a 'bizarre latex-cyborg brothel ring' in prison

Resttution? #

Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 21:44 GMT

What a lame, ineffectual penalty. Only 44 months and $65,000 restitution? It's a good thing for him he didn't download a picture of a 15 year old girl with her top off.

Steven Raith

Sarah Bee #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 00:02 GMT

Is what I was expecting this article to be about - our feared Moderatrix had been nicked for sending spam.

Steven R

Anonymous Coward

Damages #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 01:58 GMT

What's the $150,000 damages *really* include besides some made up imaginary "we could have lost this much business" nonsense, really?

Steve Roper

Re: Crazy sentence #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 01:58 GMT

You're right, that is a crazy sentence. As in FAR too lenient. What SHOULD have happened to this little bastard is...

Ch-Click... HOCK! OOOOOORRRRRRAAAAAAYYYY!!!

The dead bird because all botnet spammers should end up looking like that...

Thad

Rubbermaid? #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 03:42 GMT

If they have a subsidiary called Rubbermaid Solutions --- I suppose I might stretch a point abd suspend my poicy of never dealing with a company with the word 'solutions' in the name.

David Wiernicki

Eh? #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 03:42 GMT

"A US-based hacker has been sentenced to 41 months in jail for breaking into corporate computers in Europe and making them part of a money-generating botnet..."

Well, that's good. Breaking into corporate computers and making them part of a money-LOSING botnet would just have been embarrassing.

TeeCee

"Operation bot roast"? #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 10:11 GMT

I thought that was how the prefects toasted crumpets at the better educational establishments.

stranger on the road

corporate computers? #

Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 10:11 GMT

for real? if so then the guy is _NOT_ guilty, sue the IT department of the company that left it's computers unprotected.

There is a difference between home/private computers being infect and "corporate" computers being infected!. At home the computer is being used by none computer professionals*, at a corporate office they have highly trained _computer_ professionals to look after their computers.

* reminder, yes none computer professionals do exist. If everyone was a computer professional then there will no longer be any need for us.

Devil Bill because he should have shipped Windows with all ports closed by default, and to let the "corporate computer professionals" open the ones they need.

JonB