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- From: bill <bill@GAUSS.GATECH.EDU>
- Subject: Len Rose Outcome (from AP wire)
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 14:29:14 EST
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- BALTIMORE (AP) -- A computer hacker pleaded guilty Friday to stealing
- information from American Telephone & Telegraph and its subsidiary
- Bell Laboratories.
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- Under an agreement with prosecutors, Leonard Rose pleaded guilty in
- U.S. District Court to one count of sending AT&T source codes via
- computer to Richard Andrews, an Illinois hacker, and a similar wire
- fraud charge involving a Chicago hacker.
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- Prosecutors said they will ask that Rose be sentenced to two
- concurrent one-year terms. Rose is expected to be sentenced in May.
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- Neither Rose nor his attorney could be immediately reached for comment
- late Friday.
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- "Other computer hackers who choose to use their talents to interfere
- with the security and privacy of computer systems can expect to be
- prosecuted and to face similar penalties," said U.S. Attorney
- Breckinridge L. Willcox.
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- "The sentence contemplated in the plea agreement reflects the serious
- nature of this new form of theft," Willcox said.
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- Rose, 32, was charged in May 1990 in a five-count indictment following
- an investigation by the Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney's offices
- in Baltimore and Chicago.
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- He also had been charged with distributing "trojan horse" programs,
- designed to gain unauthorized access to computer systems, to other
- hackers.
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- Prosecutors said Rose and other hackers entered into a scheme to steal
- computer source codes from AT&T's UNIX computer system.
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- The plea agreement stipulates that after he serves his sentence, Rose
- must disclose his past conduct to potential employers that have
- computers with similar source codes.
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