Max Butler aka Max Vision sentenced to 18 months in prison for launching Internet worm that crawled through hundreds of military and defense contractor computers over a few days in 1998. Butler is known for his expertise in intrusion detection: the science of automatically analyzing Internet traffic for attack signatures; and he created arachnids, a popular open source catalog of signatures that forms part of an overall public resource at WhiteHats.com. Butler will be eligible for assignment to a community halfway house as early as April of next year, and will be released in mid-October 2002.
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2001/05/22/whitehat_max_vision_gets/