Thursday, September 27, 2007

Jailed worm author offered job by victim

The Register's article, "Jailed worm author offered job by victim," discusses the curious case of Li Jun, 25, who was involved in the Fujacks worm, which infected hundreds of thousands of Windows machines. Mr. Jun is just started a four year prison sentence for this crime. The article states:

According to Chinese media reports, Li has been offered a job paying a million yuan ($133,000) a year as technology director with Jushu Technology, a Hangzhou City-based firm that was one of the victims of the worm.

Li's lawyers said Jushu is one of 10 firms who've offered jobs to the "precious genius".

See also the Slashdot discussion.