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P2P botnet creator dodges jail sentence

article published on 29 April, 2009

A creator of one of the first botnets that uses P2P technology to distribute instructions to drones has escaped a jail sentence. Jason Michael Milmont, 20, of Cheyenne, Wyoming was sentenced instead to five years of supervised probation, a year of home confinement and has been ordered to pay almost $37,000 in restitution. "This young man has quite a bit of talent and we asked that he ... [ read the full article ]

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Blackjax

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30. April 2009 @ 03:00

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I see a documentary in twenty years of how they expoloited his talents for "good".

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Pop_Smith

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30. April 2009 @ 21:19

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It's interesting to see a 20-year-old creating a botnet.

However, I am wondering one thing, if he had anything he "purchased" delivered to vacant homes how did he get caught? By a sting of some kind?

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plazma247

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1. May 2009 @ 08:33

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http://www.trib.com/articles/2008/06/28/...78754215938.txt

The FBI wouldnt comment on how he was caught, the main theory is that he told someone and they grassed him... or the worm contacted the following servers:

? 24.217.137.**********:8
? 68.110.80.**********:8
? 65.30.81.**********:8
? 72.129.129.**********:8
? 68.198.41.**********:8
? 64.13.113.**********:8
? 69.113.158.**********:8
? 69.141.98.**********:8
? 67.177.114.**********:8
? 24.165.115.**********:8
? 71.224.113.**********:8
? 69.234.207.**********:8
? 69.165.59.**********:8
? 24.58.101.**********:8
? 65.189.204.**********:8
? 24.206.248.**********:8
? 216.174.161.**********:8
? 69.133.103.**********:8
? 67.149.59.**********:8
? 68.118.224.**********:8
? 68.46.202.**********:8
? 70.132.132.**********:8
? 69.113.3.**********:8
? 128.211.221.**********:8

Which he may have had some sort of connetion to and thus track down that way.

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ooZEROoo

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3. May 2009 @ 01:01

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7 years in prison reduced to probation and house arrest...can you say SNITCH!!!

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