Jail Time for Jeffrey Parson

18 months ago, Jeffrey Parson was arrested for authoring the MSBlast worm, which infected about 120,000 Windows computers. Today he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. He could have been put away for 10 years, so it could have been worse. I'm not sure he should feel comforted by the judge's reasoning, however.

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said she was sentencing him at the low end of the agreed-upon range because although he was 18 at the time of the attack his maturity level was much younger than that.

Ouch. I'm sure he'll grow up fast in prison, though.