| 30 months prison for logic bomber |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 10 January 2008 | |
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The code was designed to run automatically on his next birthday (April 23, 2004). Lin was kept on when other sysadmins were retrenched, and although he did not remove the code it failed to run due to programming errors. He subsequently modified to code to execute on April 23, 2005, but one of Lin's colleagues found and disabled the script in January 2005. Medco is a prescription drug benefit manager, so any outage may have prevented prescriptions being dispensed. Lin's sentence is believed to be the longest federal prison term imposed on someone found guilty of criminal damage to computer systems. Additionally, he must pay $US81,200 restitution to Medco and faces a further two years of supervised release when he leaves prison. And if there was any chance of Lin resuming his IT career by finding someone prepared to employ him despite his record, the court has effectively put paid to that by forbidding him from working on computers in prison or during the supervision period. After that, he'll be in his mid-50s and his skills will be four years out of date.
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