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High school student charged in Internet attack.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Leslie Brooks Suzukamo
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ An 18-year-old high school student was arrested and charged Friday with creating one of the variants of the "Blaster" computer worm that contributed to crippling attacks on thousands of unprotected home and business machines this month.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, a senior at Hopkins High School, was arrested without incident by FBI and U.S. Secret Service agents in a raid at 7:20 a.m. CDT at his parent's apartment, FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said.
Parson's arrest capped an investigation spanning more than two weeks. It started at the Microsoft headquarters outside Seattle, led to San Diego, hopped scotched over to Texas and finally ended up in a two-story, white multiplex building in Hopkins, Minn.
It also signals a new get-tough approach by federal authorities who, in the past, have not had the manpower, equipment, expertise or even incentive to chase virus and worm writers.
"We're hoping his arrest will deter others who think this is a funny way to play on their computers," U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Tom Heffelfinger…
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