Blaster author identified, about to be arrested...

David Lesher wb8foz at nrk.com
Sat Aug 30 01:31:20 UTC 2003


Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> 
> >The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like 
> >infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. 
> >official confirmed Thursday.
> 
> It always worries me when law enforcement send out a press statement
> that they are going to arrest a particular individual "in the future".

Hey, it's hard enough to schedule the arrests for prime news
coverage; you gotta get the news teams in place for the perp. walk,
write up the off-the-cuff remarks the lead Feebee is going to
read, etc..



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