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- MISSOURI MAN PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO
- CHARGES OF CRACKING 911 SYSTEM
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- (Feb. 17)
- A 19-year-old University of Missouri
- has pleaded not guilty to federal
- charges he invaded the 911 emergency
- phone network for nine states, then
- passed along stolen information in an
- electronic publication.
- Craig Neidorf was indicted earlier
- this month along with Robert J. Riggs,
- 20, of Decatur, Ga. They are charged
- with interstate transportation of stolen
- property, wire fraud and violations of
- the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- of 1986.
- As reported earlier, prosecutors
- allege the two used computers to enter
- the 911 system of Atlanta's Bell South
- and copied the program that controls and
- maintains the system. The stolen
- material then allegedly was published on
- a computer bulletin board system
- operating in the Chicago suburb of
- Lockport. Authorities contend Neidorf
- edited the data for an electronic
- publication known as "Phrack."
- Associated Press writer Sarah Nordgren
- reports that at a hearing Thursday,
- assistant US Attorney William Cook was
- granted a motion to prevent the 911
- program from becoming part of the public
- record during the trial. US District
- Judge Nicholas Bua set April 16 as the
- trial date.
- The 911 system in question controls
- emergency calls to police, fire,
- ambulance and emergency services in
- cities in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia,
- Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, North
- Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.
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