Blaster worm author gets jail time
Jeffrey Lee Parson was barely 18 years old and dealing with some personal problems when he launched a variant of the Blaster worm that infected more than 48,000 computers worldwide. On Friday, a federal judge in Seattle sentenced Parson to 18 months in prison, three years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service.
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