Sasser writer likely to get suspended sentence
THE WRITER of the Sasser worm is likely to walk free from court today if German prosecutors get their way.
Although Sasser disabled a huge number of computers world wide, prosecutors say they do not want to lock Sven Jaschan up.
A spokeswoman for the court said that the prosecution had also called at the closed-doors hearing for, now 19, to perform 200 hours of public service and have a two year suspended sentence and be put on probation for three years.
According to Reuters, the defence claim that is unfair and want him to only ‘serve’ a one year suspended sentence.
This is despite the fact that Jaschan and the prosecutors both acknowledge that the case was agrivated by the the fact that the teen continued to send out versions of the worm even when he knew what damage it was causing the world.
But they said his full confession, issued on the first day of his trial on Tuesday, and the prospects for social rehabilitation made life a lot better for him.
