According to The New York Times article, an 18yo named Jeff Parson was arrested by the FBI and charged with writing and distributing the Blaster.B virus. The article reports that the virus connects back to a system called http://www.t33kid.com/. Well, that wasn’t very bright on his part, I gotta say. Pop over to Network Solutions and the record for that particular domain reports…

Domain: t33kid.com

Registrant (JP397-IYD-REG)
Jeff Parson
root@t33kid.com
603 8th Ave S.
Hopkins, Minnesota 55343 US
+1.1111111111

One is tempted to assume that he just didn’t realize what he was doing. I mean, come on, this is his home address, not a post office box or whatever. Tantamount to putting a sign on your door “FBI, This is the Place”, isn’t it?

But writing viruses and similar hacking exploits is clearly his thing. The Web site at t33kid.com is blank now, just showing the default Apache install page, but a quick Google search allows us to pull up the previous version of the page from their cache, which lists — surprise! — source code for various viruses for people interested in learning how to write them, including:

• p2p.teekid.c – my little p2p worm spreads via kazaa and imesh, downloads a file from web. No biggie. 1770 downloads.
• webdl.c – webdownload example in c. 575 downloads
• p2p.duload.vb – duload.d made be teekid and b0b, modified a tiny bit from the .c distro. 296 downloads.

IRC, Internet Relay Chat, is another area of interest for Mr. Parson. As the anonymous author of this page on Geocities says, the “Best IRCBOTS website on the net” was ircbot.t33k.com (now all gone as far as I can tell).

It’s always just unfortunate when bright and motivated individuals like Mr. Parson find more reward in destructive and antisocial behavior than anything else. Predictably, perhaps, his musical tastes seem consistent with the media stereotype of hackers, too. Digging further in Google reveals that he had a song lyrics area on his site, with lyrics to songs from Alice Cooper, Insane Clown Posse, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Ministry, and Weird Al Yankovic, among many others.

What do you think about it? A misdirected teen, or a malicious criminal who deserves to feel the full weight of the law? If convicted he could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.