Teen 'Botnet' Leader Arrested in New Zealand

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THE new era of producing Governmental data
is no longer hacking. With the advannt of
extreme superior use of the numeral and
zero system towards producing data is an
undetectable structure of literally gathering
data on space and defense with out hacking.
THE teen hacker is old school. THIS new
world of creating Governmental data is yet
to command attention. THIS is Cyber space
defense worst nightmare.

A cyber investigator is wise to read the legal terms posted on web pages. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2010/01/terms-service.html --Ben

Why not release his name? Last I heard, 18 years old makes a person an adult. Don't treat him like a baby!

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Why is it so surprising that he is only 18? It's at that age and younger when people are at their prime as far as discovering and working through aspects of any kind of things that they feel is a challenge to them or catches their fancy...like he was supposed become a genius once he was 21 or something.

Put him in jail and hard labor picking rocks seven days a week, and then hang him in the yard in front of the other prisoners; these criminals are causing too much anxiety to millions of us, AND stealing millions of Dollars

What is up with the picture of Mr.T? What does that picture have to do with the article?

All young offenders names SHOULD be released. It is for this very reason some young adults are NOT afraid to do things they other wise might not do. They KNOW they can get by with it, that it will not be made known. If they do the crime , it should be told. Maybe then, some of this violence will stop

Blondie:

"He is said to be tied to a botnet gang known as the A-Team, who the FBI hopes will also be behind bars soon"

I pity da fool dat mess wit botnet!!

This is surprising that he is only 18? He doesn't have anything better to do but hack on his computer all day obviously. Lock this guy and his up and throw away the key!!! NEVER LET HIM OR HIS GANG TOUCH ANYTHING ELECTRONIC EVER AGAIN!!!! He and his gang are just a handful of the people that give the rest of us more grief than any of us need with computer fraud, theft, and UPDATES to try to stop these people from stealing our money. Why not disclose his name? Are the authorities afraid someone will take care of this thief themself? I can't say I would blame anybody for that. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that are just as sick and tired of thieves as I am and it wouldn't hurt my feelings any if internet theft was a prison sentence for life.

This 18 year old should have his name released. He committed an adult crime, and everyone should know who he is. We coddle criminals too much in this world right now. As far as I'm concerned if you commit a serious crime, I'm not worried about infringing their civil rights. You should not have any civil rights !

This is nuts he is old enough to murder people in the name of God and country, get laid, and in most places own firearms, and drink alcohol. My guess is there is something rotten in the FBI or the age of consent has been raised again. Also could be the FBI is tired of being sued for arresting the wrong person.. I do not feel the name of a person should be released until they are found guilty. This prevents the lives of people from being destroyed by over zealous Police and FBI agents and irresponsible media whores. Actually I would be interested in some information on how and what he did so I could protect my self form his particular scam. The biggest thing anyone can do in disconnect from the inter net when you are not actively using it. If you user a routes change the base IP address at least once a month, I have a program I wrote that shutdowns 27 monitoring programs started by major software companies during startup. I shutdown these programs before the internet connection is made.

The reason why name is not released is because he is cooperating with the fbi to nab the rest of his cyber thieve friends.

Put the kid to work for the FBI and other "good- guy" organizations as a way of paying for what he did. Use the thief to catch other thieves. That mind of his is too good to waste!

the kid's name is owen wilson from whitianga...he was homeschooled and works for trios software development...he enlisted a group of computer dudes called the a-team...that is why the picture accompanies this article..by and by, he still lives at home and is described as a loner

What's the deal with the picture of The "A" Team?

Did you people every think that they arent releasing his name because they might use him as an operative in their own forces? A kid with that much talent can usually be forced into working FOR the FBI instead of going to jail. They said he was part of a ring of people, he has extremely valuable information on other cyberterrorists and to release his name is counterproductive on the investigation. Also, who cares what his name is? DO YOU KNOW HIM? Doubt it! So what would YOU knowing his name do? He's in serious trouble, they WILL lock him up at some point. So get over not knowing every single juicy bit!

i always knew that Murdoch was just "craaaaaa...ZY"

What do you expect a kid in the Waikato region on New zealand to do?? there is nothing for kids to do here but milk cows, screw sheep, get pregnant young, drink and figure out ways to mess up people lives.. It is all done in the name of trying beaintg the bordom... the kid is from just outside Hamilton...