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[News] 'Windows Puppeteer' Hijacks 400,000, Gets 5 Years Behind Bars

US 'botmaster' jailed for nearly 5 years for computer hacking

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| LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US computer hacker was jailed for nearly fiveyears
| for hijacking around 400,000 computers, including military servers,
| and infecting them with malicious software.
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        http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060509/tc_afp/usjusticecomputers

As usual, the article does not mention that hijacking was possible due to
critical bugs in the Windows operating system.

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