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April 2, 20??-- WASHINGTON -- A young man was sentenced to 30 years in prison accused of Information Terrorism, this was the first case of a man judged and sentenced under the Information Terrorism Act. John Doe (aka X4582) was found guilty after a long trial. Last year on January 13, X4582 sent a message to Bugtraq (a well known information secuirty mailing list that only discuss new information security technologies), the message seemed a normal post to the mailing but in the process previous to the approval, Symantec engineers found that the message was encoded and it detailed a new critical bug in a Microsoft product. The message was obfuscated with an old and simple technique that consist in hidding a message in an inoffensive looking text. -We found it by a mistake, we are always searching for advanced techniques but we were fooled in the past by this simple technique- said in confidential a Symantec engineer that don't want his name to be mentined. Under the Information Terrorism Act it's forbidden to public disclose vulnerabilities without following the strict rules created by OIS(Organization for Internet Safety) and the violatioin of this law it's considered a terrorist attack. @Stake experts tried to track down X4582 for several months without success, because of that Microsoft decided to offer a bounty of $1,000,000 for information that lead to the capture of X4582, also OIS decided to put X4582 at first place in most wanted computer criminals list (http://www.oisafety.org/MostWanted.thm). After a month the FBI found and arrested X4582, thanks to information provided by Microsoft (it's believed that X4582 was betrayed by a friend). This case had a lot of media attention and was a great victory for Microsoft and OIS, however this was a controversial case -My client had all the information in his computer strongly encrypted and he ran the latest Microsoft operating system that it's considered the most secure OS in the market, we don't know how the proves were got- said X4582 attorney. There are some theories in the underground that affirm that the latest version of Microsoft operating system have backdoors for use of goverment agencies, this remains in theory because it's also forbidden under Information Terrorism act to reverse engineering software and public release details. -We are very happy, this victory help us to continue fighting against Information Terrorism, if X4582 would have succed and the information would have been disclosed, all the American infrastructure would be at risk becuase our products are widely used by most organizations and companies- said a Microsoft spokeman. This seems incredible? i don't think so. PS: sorry, i'm not a good writer. Cesar. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html