>This individual's life, as they perhaps thought they'd live it is entirely over at this point. I certainly would not want to trade a lifetime of being a public pariah and potentially having judgements exceeding 1 billion dollars for, what, one day's thrill of having that elusive sand called power. It so quickly runs through the hands, eh? *s*

Sorry, but I think this is an overstatement. If you look at the actual intentions of the "virus", it was probably just to hide a friends MP3 library, then pass it on to some other friends. Like John said, the only thing that made this bigger than it should have been is earth's population's obsession with unproductive emailing, ironic?

>The death penaly in this case would be the easy way..

Hmmm, did this come from a "Klingon Hacker's" top 10 list too?