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- Japan Police say Hacker replaced Weather with Porn
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- Japanese police on Friday arrested a 27-year-old computer engineer
- suspected of replacing public weather charts on the Internet with
- pornographic pictures.
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- A spokesman for Osaka police said Koichi Kubojima, a resident of the
- northern Tokyo suburb of Fujimi, was the first person in Japan to be
- arrested for suspected violation of a 1987 anti-hacker law.
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- Kubojima is accused of taking over seven web pages of the
- Osaka-based television network Asahi Broadcasting Company on May
- 18 and replacing five of the seven weather charts on the pages with
- pornographic pictures. He also faces charges under Japan's
- anti-obscenity laws.
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- Police said Kubojima told investigators he was just trying to have some
- fun and tried but failed to delete the pictures when he learned that his
- own actions were being reported all over on the Internet.
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- He used a fake password obtained from a local Internet provider to enter
- the website from his personal computer at home, but his operations were
- retraced by investigators through phone records kept at the provider
- firm, police said.
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- If convicted, Kubojima faces a fine of one million yen ($8,600) and a
- prison term of up to five years under tough penalties against hackers
- adopted in 1992.
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- ($1-116 yen)
- REUTERS
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