A virus creator (Gobo to intimici) was recently caught and sent to jail for spreading three viruses.
He got a two year sentance for spreading them, infecting a supposed (?) count of 27000 machines.

Some of his friends started a Free Gobo campaign.

Offcourse the resamblance with the free KM pops.in
Kevin Mitnick was prisoned for four and a half years and spent somewhat like 8 months in solitary.

Although the circumstances may be better for Gobo then they were for Kevin his friends are conviced Gobo has been victim off a witch hunt. They claim he has been sentenced to hard for the crime.

Gobo was sentenced for spreading the following three virii.

GoKar
Redesi
Admirer

The spreading of the virii was a bad thing but a two year sentencing does not make you a better person.

The person that spreaded the Anna Kournikova came from the netherlands (where I live) and got sentenced to 150 hours of community service.
That is quite a difference for just some hundred miles away.


What do y'all think ?
How does your government deal with malicious internet users ?

some news links on the story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/new...864085,00.html
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/arti...allorjail.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/interne.../courts.virus/
http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&ie...+%2B+virus&lr=

The Free Gobo site
Free at last