Microsoft hires bounty hunters

Microsoft has put up "two $250,000 rewards, a total of $500,000, for information that leads to the arrest of the writers of two nasty computer worms -- the Blaster worm and SoBig." I am all for this as those guys sure wasted some of my time. As regular readers will know, I am also a fan of bounty hunters (see my earlier post; and my econometric paper - finding that bounty hunters reduce failure to appear rates and bring back fugitives much more succesfully than the public police).