*** Teen computer hackers toss electronic spit balls
Teen-agers have always pulled pranks but in the '90s they are hurling
electronic spitballs that have crippled an airport, shut off phone
service to a town and punctured the Pentagon's computer system.
Israeli police put Ehud Tenebaum under house arrest last month after
the U.S. Justice Department notified them the 18-year-old had broken
into computers at the Pentagon and commercial and educational
institutions. The same month, officials in Massachusetts announced
the arrest of a 14-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to hacking into a
phone system's switching facility and shutting down a regional
airport. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553573022-8ce
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