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From: john@x.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Young hacker busted in Phoenix
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 17:18:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 17:18:47 1984
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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As I see it, the hacker who was arrested was not "entrapped"; he advertised
his services (which were illegal), and the police merely followed his
instructions to find him, and in pretending to desire to purchase the illegal
cable converter, merely verified the advertisement.

DeLorean's claim (and the basis of entrapment) is that he was approached out of
the blue by the agents, who suggested to him that he could get rich by selling
drugs.  He didn't take out an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal asking
"Wanted:  High-yield investment situation involving illicit chemicals...".

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