Hacker Arrested for Octopus Virus

[John_Keck]

A Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that destroys and replaces files on a victim PC with manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins. I love his reason for all of this:

Masato Nakatsuji, 27, of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, was quoted as telling police: "I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested."

 

[John_Keck]

I guess not enough!

 

[Notleh]

I am oddly intrigued by this. He wasn't trashing BIOS or stealing credit card info...he was doing inserting manga. Oddly funny imo.

 

[Evil]

He appears to be a sick genius of sorts. Symantec should hire him.

 

[NKDietrich]

For his next trick, he should release one that replaces files with hentai images of squids, octopuses, and sea urchins.

 

[Negative Decibel]

well, there's your problem...

 

[cyclone3d]

Way too funny! Made me LOL.

 

[heatlesssun]

I guess not enough!

Sounds like his programming skills are doing just fine. He needs to work on his anti-arrest skills now.

 

[Skull_Angel]

win

 

[FrozenDevl]

Best response after getting arrested, ever.

 

[glutto]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[W.Feather]

Best response after getting arrested, ever.

agreed

 

[PheonixChameleon]

Wow.. and there is nothing more entrepreneurial he could think of to do with these programming skills?

 

[mortonP]

"Nakatsuji, who was convicted for violating copyrights in his previous case, was quoted as telling police he felt he would not be arrested again because he had created the manga images for Ikatako himself, therefore avoiding a violation of the copyright law."

After reading the above it is quite obvious the man is out of touch with reality and needs help.

 

[Acoustique]

what a champion
the "why would you do that factor?" is full of win

 

[Boreas]

Lol, maybe hes trying to encompass all the worlds computers with manga....HE WORKS FOR FUNIMATION!!!

 

[Boreas]

sorry for duble post, but heres his FB profile. LOL at pic

http://www.facebook.com/nakatsuji

 

[QHalo]

I thought that his hair was his armpit hair at first quick glance. Dunno why but I LOL'd then was like, uh oh.

 

[Makaveli@BETA]

That response was epic I will have a drink for this guy tonight!

 

[krotch]

"Nakatsuji, who was convicted for violating copyrights in his previous case, was quoted as telling police he felt he would not be arrested again because he had created the manga images for Ikatako himself, therefore avoiding a violation of the copyright law."

After reading the above it is quite obvious the man is out of touch with reality and needs help.

I don't see how he is out of touch with reality. He was arrested last time for copyright violation, since the last virus he wrote used an image that wasn't his. This time the image was his. Of course, they just decided to hit him with a property destruction law instead.

He should have written the virus to keep the original files, but set the pointers to his octopus, squid, and sea urchin images instead. That way he couldn't be hit with property destruction. It'd probably infect all the files a lot quicker too.