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F.Y.I. - Newsnote from the Electronic by up to 5 years in prison. The
Frontier Foundation - July 9, 1992 defendants are scheduled to be
FEDERAL HACKING INDICTMENTS ISSUED arraigned in Manhattan Federal Court
AGAINST FIVE IN NEW YORK CITY 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." Article by : E.F.F.
Clipart by : Moz/Eclipse
"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."
EFF 155 Second Street, Cambridge MA
141 (617)864-0665 eff@eff.org
-= 50 years in fucking prizz,thats a
bit excessive, paranoid mother