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From: jehannum@teneron.UUCP (Chris Osburn)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Young hacker busted in Phoenix
Message-ID: <123@teneron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 14:19:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 14:19:05 1984
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> 	(Reprinted w/o permission from USA Today 10/18/84)
> 
> 	"TV Adapter: Too smart for his own good?"
> 
> Computer nerds aren't always as swift as you might think.  Just ask Cpl. Bud
> McCloud, 33, of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix, Ariz.  An
> enterprising 16-year-old recently used the local police computer bulletin
> board to advertise his expertise at installing illegal cable TV decoding
> devices.  The electronic message center generally is just a forum for
> questions and banter.  After seeing the message, McCloud and a deputy posed
> as residents wanted to pirate cable TV signals.  When the youth accepted $30
> from the officers for his services, they cuffed him.  "He was flabbergasted,"
> McCloud says.  "Either he couldn't read that it was the police bulletin board
> he had advertised on, or he's just incredibly stupid."
> 
> 	(End of reprint)
> -- 

Didn't John DeLorean get off because of these tactics?  Sure,
the 16-year-old in question was a little dingy for advertising
where he did, but that doesn't alter the fact that what USA Today
reported sounds a lot like entrapment...


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