Blaster restitution deal
As reported late yesterday, Microsoft reached an agreement with Jeffrey Lee Parson over the $500,000 in restitution the Minnesota teenager owes the company for releasing a variant of the Blaster computer worm. Essentially, Microsoft agreed to let Parson satisfy the obligation by working an additional 225 hours of community service, over and above his earlier sentence.
For more background, click here to download a copy of the proposed restitution agreement. (PDF) The deal still requires court approval.
Posted by Todd Bishop at March 30, 2005 12:01 PM
I don't like this deal, community service does not teach the kid a lesson correctly. Talk about a slap on the rest.
They should have made the kid pay, that would hurt him and make him think twice on doing it again.
