WA: FBI spyware nabbed the bomb threat kid

That Lacey youth with the bomb - threat - making hobby? Someone was monitoring his MySpace and Gmail, and it wasn't Sanchovilla.

From Wired: FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats

FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month sent the suspect a secret surveillance program designed to surreptitiously monitor him and report back to a government server...

The software was sent to the owner of an anonymous MySpace profile linked to bomb threats against Timberline High School near Seattle. The code led the FBI to 15-year-old Josh Glazebrook, a student at the school, who on Monday pleaded guilty to making bomb threats, identity theft and felony harassment...

From C-Net: FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat

...(T)he county sheriff's office learned about the MySpace profile - timberlinebombinfo - when the creator tried to persuade other students to link to it and at least one of their parents called the police... In addition, the bomb hoaxster was sending a series of taunting messages from Google Gmail accounts... A representative excerpt: "There are 4 bombs planted throughout Timberline High School. One in the math hall, library hall, and one portable. The bombs will go off in 5 minute intervals at 9:15 am."

The FBI replied by obtaining account logs from Google and MySpace. Both pointed to... a compromised computer in Italy. That's when the FBI decided to roll out the heavy artillery...

(via the Olympian)