Montreal Teen Guilty In NASA, MIT, Harvard Hacks

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/00/149257.html

By Martin Stone, Newsbytes
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA,
18 May 2000, 7:06 AM CST

A teenage hacker has reportedly pleaded guilty in a Montreal court to
illegally penetrating the computer systems of several Canadian and
foreign institutions, including NASA, Harvard University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others.

The Toronto Globe & Mail newspaper reported that following the
surprise plea, the judge served the maximum sentence of 240 hours of
community work plus one year's probation, restricted use of a
computer, and ordered the defendant to deliver a speech at a local
high school court on the evils of hacking.

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