Sasser Suspect Scores Suspended Sentence
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Sven Jaschan, the German teenager who created the Sasser worm, has now been convicted of creating Sasser, and has received a suspended sentence for his deeds, along with an order to perform community service.
The twenty-one month suspended sentence is due in large part to the fact that Jaschan was a minor when he wrote Sasser, and was still a minor when he was arrested - although just barely.
Said Graham Cluely, a senior technology consultant for Sophos, “Sven Jaschan avoided a jail sentence by the skin of his teeth because he was arrested within days of his 18th birthday. In many ways, Sven Jaschan was lucky that the police caught him when they did.”
Despite the thousands of dollars worth of damage…
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