Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 13:42:44 GMT From: Scott Dorsey Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Len Rose Sent To Prison Reply-To: Scott Dorsey Message-ID: Organization: NASA Langley Research Center Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 453, Message 3 of 5 Lines: 47 In article bill@eedsp.gatech.edu writes: > BALTIMORE (AP) -- A computer hacker has been sentenced to a year > and a day in prison for stealing information from American Telephone & > Telegraph and its subsidiary Bell Laboratories. > Leonard Rose Jr., 32, an unemployed computer consultant, pleaded > guilty in March to one count of sending AT&T source codes via computer > to a hacker in Illinois, and a similar wire fraud charge involving a > Chicago hacker. He did indeed send a copy of the System V login source code to someone who may have used it in the commission of a crime. > Rose was once a member of a nationwide hackers' group called the > Legion of Doom. No, he was not. Sorry. > He originally was indicted on charges of computer fraud and > interstate transportation of stolen property, but those charges were > dropped under a plea agreement. > U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz on Monday ordered Rose to > sell his computer equipment, which was seized last year in a raid on > his home in Middletown, and to tell potential employers of his > conviction. He is to begin serving his sentence July 10. > The judge did not order restitution to AT&T because Rose has what > one of his attornies called "a negative net worth." This is indeed true. He did not have such a condition until spending huge amounts of money for defense. scott [Moderator's Note: I did not bother to correct various inaccuracies in the wire story because the submitter pointed out the text was verbatim, and I assumed *we* all knew about the Legion of Doom thing. Regarding payment to his attornies, my understanding is much of the expense was met by friends, although without employment Len had the 'negative net worth' anyway. I hope his wife and kids have been able to get on public assistance (welfare) for the interim. PAT]