"HANOVER, Germany -- German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm, believed to be one of the Internet's most costly outbreaks of sabotage." Note the language...an "18 year old MAN" and "sabotage"... So a HS kid, living with his parents, is able to write a worm that takes out millions and millions of computers throughout the world running the latest MS OS. Uh....shouldn't we arrest Bill Gates first? I think you are thinking in terms of the American age scale - In england (and over most of europe although obviously it varies), 18 is old enough to marry without parental permission, be served in a bar, drive, and be a
Tyler Durden wrote: practicing homosexual. At 16 you can have hetrosexual relationships, marry with parental permission, work (and pay taxes) and rent property in your own name (you can *own* property from 12) Most schooling ends at 16, college 18, university (assuming a 3 year course) 21. I would assume a german at 18 is either at university or considered of employable age - well into majority. So legally, "man" is ok - obviously, this is a shallow typical Skript Kiddie who probably still lives with his parents, but legally that isn't the case.