Men Make Plea Deal in MySpace Extortion Case

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Globe and Mail (AP).

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Two young Long Island men accused of trying to extort MySpace.com by
developing code to track users pleaded no contest Monday to illegal
computer access in a bargain with the prosecution.

Two counts of attempted extortion and another illegal computer access count
were dropped in the deal, which gave the defendants three-year probationary
terms. Each had faced up to nearly four years in prison.

Shaun Harrison, 19, and Saverio Mondelli, 20, of Suffolk County, were
accused of demanding $150,000 (U.S.) as a consulting fee from MySpace. The
pair were offering the code as a service on their own website for $29.95
and claimed to be developing an unbreakable version.

The popular MySpace social networking site is supposed to offer anonymity,
but Mr. Harrison and Mr. Mondelli were offering a means to acquire e-mail
addresses and Internet protocol addresses of users, the prosecution said.

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More:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070226.wmyspacee0226/B
NStory/Technology/

- - ferg

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