Teens held in "Goner" investigation: Four Israeli teenagers were placed under house arrest Monday after admitting they wrote and spread the "Goner" worm that wreaked havoc on computers worldwide, police said. Tel Aviv's juvenile court accepted a police request to confine the youths, ages 15 and 16, to their houses pending five days of investigation, said Meir Zohar, head of the Israeli police computer crimes squad.
Hum.
Well, by the terms of the Bill of Rights Recision Act ... er, pardon, the USA Patriot Act, these kids are guilty of crimes warranting extraordinarily hefty prison sentences, at the very least. I wonder if we'll try to extradite them from Israel so that they can be properly tried for the offenses they committed against us?
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