3F.Y.I. - Newsnote from the Electronic1      by  up  to  5  years in prison.  The
 3Frontier  Foundation -  July 9, 19921      defendants  are   scheduled   to  be
  3FEDERAL HACKING INDICTMENTS ISSUED1       arraigned in Manhattan Federal Court
    3AGAINST FIVE IN NEW YORK CITY1          on July 16.  If  found guilty on all
                                           counts  the  defendants could face a
 Yesterday,Federal officials indicted      maximum term of  50  years in prison
 five  people  in  New  York City for      and fines of $2.5 million.
 computer crime. The indictments name     
 Mark  Abene  (Phiber  Optik),  Julio      Otto  Obermaier,   U.S.    Attorney,
 Fernandez   ( Outlaw ),   John   Lee      discounted suggestions that the acts
 (Corrupt),  Elias  Ladopoulos  (Acid      alleged  in the indictment were only
 Phreak), and  Paul Stria (Scorpion).      "pranks"   and  asserted  that  they
 The   indictments  charge  that  the      represented    " the  crime  of  the
 accused  used   their  computers  to      future."   He  also  stated that one
 access credit bureaus,other computer      purpose  of  the  indictment  was to
 systems, and make free long-distance      send a message that  " this  kind of
 calls.                                    conduct will not be tolerated."
                                          
 Prosecutors  revealed they relied on      Mark Abene,  known  to  the computer
 court - approved  wiretaps to obtain      community as Phiber Optik,denied any
 much  of   the  evidence  for  their      wrongdoing.
 multiple - count indictment for wire     
 fraud,  illegal   wiretapping    and      The Electronic Frontier Foundation's
 conspiracy. Each count is punishable      staff  counsel  in  Cambridge,  Mike
 Godwin  is  carefully  reviewing the         fuckers,I mean Jesus, your entire
 indictments.   Mitchell  Kapor,  EFF         life taken away  bcoz  you done a
 President, stated today that: "EFF's         little hacking, just goes to show
 position on  unauthorized  access to         you  all  that  you should always
 computer systems is,  and has always         FUCK THE LAW! - POlARiS =-
 been, that it is wrong."                     2Article by1 : 3E.F.F.1
                                              2Clipart by1 : 3Moz/Eclipse1
 "Nevertheless," Kapor continued, "we
 have  on   previous  occasions  dis-
 covered that  allegations  contained
 in  Federal indictments  can also be
 much   of  the  evidence  for  their
 multiple - count indictment for wire
 fraud,wrong,and that civil liberties
 can   be  easily  infringed  in  the
 information age.  Because of this,we
 will be examining this case  closely
 to establish the facts."

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    302141 (617)864-0665 eff@eff.org1

 -= 50 years in fucking prizz,thats a
    bit  excessive, paranoid   mother