Why Doesn't the Media Have the Balls…

…to say it like it is: Our boy here hijacked thousands of Intel- and Intel-derived-processor-based personal computers running various versions of the Windows operating system and used them to send out spam??

American owns up to hijacking PCs:
“Hundreds of thousands of computers were infected

“A 20-year-old American has admitted hijacking thousands of computers and using them to send out spam.

“Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty in a Los Angeles court to charges of conspiring to violate anti-spam and computer misuse laws, and fraud.

“Prosecutors said the case was the first to target so-called botnets.

“These are networks of computers that are infected with malicious software and then used to send spam and attack websites.

“‘Mr Ancheta was responsible for a particularly insidious string of crimes,’ said a spokesman for the US attorney’s office in Los Angeles, Thom Mrozek.

“‘He hijacked somewhere in the area of half a million computer systems. This not only affected computers like the one in your home, but it allowed him and others to orchestrate large-scale attacks.’…”