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Is hard time for worm author too harsh? - TheDuck - 10-02-2005 update The teenager sentenced to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm got off easy, a majority of people said in a poll from Sophos. About 53 percent of the 250 business PC users responding to the poll said the sentence was too lenient, the antivirus maker said on Wednesday. Only 14 percent believed the sentence should have been less harsh, and 12 percent said the most appropriate punishment was community service. source News.com Maybe a stoning would have been appropriate. John Cleese - Life of Brian |