Tyler Durden wrote: > "HANOVER, Germany -- German police have arrested an 18-year-old man > suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm, believed to be one of > the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage." > Note the language...an "18 year old MAN" and "sabotage"... > So a HS kid, living with his parents, is able to write a worm that > takes out millions and millions of computers throughout the world > running the latest MS OS. Uh....shouldn't we arrest Bill Gates first? I think you are thinking in terms of the American age scale - In england (and over most of europe although obviously it varies), 18 is old enough to marry without parental permission, be served in a bar, drive, and be a practicing homosexual. At 16 you can have hetrosexual relationships, marry with parental permission, work (and pay taxes) and rent property in your own name (you can *own* property from 12)
Most schooling ends at 16, college 18, university (assuming a 3 year course) 21. I would assume a german at 18 is either at university or considered of employable age - well into majority. So legally, "man" is ok - obviously, this is a shallow typical Skript Kiddie who probably still lives with his parents, but legally that isn't the case.