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From: daemon@cs.utexas.edu (The devil himself)
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Subject: Re: IDG Hackers
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Date: 21 Nov 90 19:04:05 GMT
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> A missing poster from a Gamepro subscription, a video-game monthly
> magazine, prompted two Staten Island, N.Y., teen-age brothers to break
> into the telephone mail system at International Data Group's
> Peterborough, N.H., office - where Gamepro is published - and cause
> $2.4 million worth of damage.

I wonder how likely that figure is to shrink under the gaze of a
competent defense lawyer ... No, I'm not sticking up for the two
miscreants.  The spectre of BellSouth looms large whenever monetary
damage is discussed, however.


Bob Izenberg (512) 346 7019 [ ] cs.utexas.edu!{kvue,balkan}!dogface!bei


[Moderator's Note: Suppose the damage was only $24,000; or $240, or
$24.  Then what?   PAT]