I see a documentary in twenty years of how they expoloited his talents for "good".

It's interesting to see a 20-year-old creating a botnet.

However, I am wondering one thing, if he had anything he "purchased" delivered to vacant homes how did he get caught? By a sting of some kind?

http://www.trib.com/articles/2008/06/28/...78754215938.txt

The FBI wouldnt comment on how he was caught, the main theory is that he told someone and they grassed him... or the worm contacted the following servers:

• 24.217.137.**********:8
• 68.110.80.**********:8
• 65.30.81.**********:8
• 72.129.129.**********:8
• 68.198.41.**********:8
• 64.13.113.**********:8
• 69.113.158.**********:8
• 69.141.98.**********:8
• 67.177.114.**********:8
• 24.165.115.**********:8
• 71.224.113.**********:8
• 69.234.207.**********:8
• 69.165.59.**********:8
• 24.58.101.**********:8
• 65.189.204.**********:8
• 24.206.248.**********:8
• 216.174.161.**********:8
• 69.133.103.**********:8
• 67.149.59.**********:8
• 68.118.224.**********:8
• 68.46.202.**********:8
• 70.132.132.**********:8
• 69.113.3.**********:8
• 128.211.221.**********:8

Which he may have had some sort of connetion to and thus track down that way.

7 years in prison reduced to probation and house arrest...can you say SNITCH!!!