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"One of our Notables narrowly escapes jail...."

From The Daily Telegraph: 7/7/2001.
(See if you can guess who it is...)

Anti-Gates hacker spared jail

A teenage computer hacker who stole the credit card details of Bill Gates and used them to send him Viagra, escaped a jail sentence yesterday.

, who called himself the "Saint of E-commerce", sent the pills to Mr Gates - the head of computer giant Microsoft - at the company's headquarters in Washington state, as part of a "criminal crusade" highlighting the dangers of internet shopping.

At a previous hearing he admitted to 10 charges of hacking into corporate websites under the 1990 Computer Misuse Act.

He was tracked by the FBI, the Mounties, and a team of computer experts to his bedroom in Clynderwen, PEMBROKESHIRE, where he used a £700 home computer to plunder thousands of names, addresses, and credit card details.

Yesterday, at Swansea Crown Court, Judge Gareth Davies ordered to carry out a three-year community probation order linked to treatment for a mental disorder.

Judge Davies said he accepted that had not been motivated by personal gain, even though he admitted two separate counts of theft using stolen credit card details. But had shown no sympathy for the owners of thousands of credit cards whose details he had published on the internet, and it was only through luck that the information was not used to commit fraud.

actions had disrupted businesses and caused worry, inconvenience and expense.

Leighton Davies, QC, prosecuting, told the earlier hearing: " was on a criminal crusade. He targeted e-commerce sites whose computer systems were run by a Microsoft program which suffered a security weakness.

" romantically styled himself as the Saint of E-comerce, that was the name of one of his websites. He wanted to broadcast the message that internet shoppers were not to trust retailers with their credit card details."

Earlier the judge had heard that had suffered from chronic low self-esteem since childhood, which had contributed to his criminal actions.

Medical evidence showed that four years before the offences had banged his head. His condition had deteriorated and eventually gave rise to the fraud.

, who has been offered several jobs, said he regretted not what he had done, but the way he did it. "I would do it all again but another time I would choose to ensure that I acted legally."

"(Yeah, right)"

"Shut up."

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So, fellow posters, court is now in session. The trial of the notables begins here and now. Your task, should you wish to accept it, is to find out which of the seven it could be, given the damning evidence from the story above.

Shouldn't take too long...

Yes we do, and the notable vote counts as 50 regular votes, and the regular vote counts as 10 newbie votes, and the newbie vote counts as 5 just arrived votes.

(Not really, I just made that up, but we do vote. Apparently, Grix is signing up the newbies for a block vote in September come the next election.)

er-no read Dringo and Edgy oh and do Notables vote in Notable elections???????

zeldapro wrote:
> OH! YOU Confess hey! I new'ed crack sum time!!

SHUT SHUT SHUT UP!

:D

OH! YOU Confess hey! I new'ed crack sum time!!

Its true, the last seven days where I haven't been here I have been in court fighting for my freedom, I didn't see the problem with what I was doing. Bill Gates is a plonker and deserves everything cake and piece of debris that is thrown his way... infact he actually saw that the viagra was being charged onto his account and still continued to let me buy it for him.

Three years service? (I can appeal and get it down to three hours).

'OI BILL! It ain't over until the Fat Lady sings, and I don't see your wife singing yet!'

The fact of the matter is this, the judge was using Windows that night before the sentence and it crashed losing a lot of work and the drive had to be reformatted, she took this into ercount looked at my wrangler hat and sunglassed (look in the mag) and with a backhanded ibook she promptly said I was free.

I will continue to hate Microsoft until the day I die, the XBox will fail because simply 'Microsoft are Crap'.

The truth is that the whole world market would have been a better place had Microsoft not dominated and monopolised it so much, infact their disgusting acts have ruined lifes and lost jobs... what system does the Pentagon run on which has never been hacked into? umm....er.... Mac? Well then thank you!

Next time, it will be a gun to his head.. I will remove his glasses after the cry of 'don't shoot a man with glasses' and I am going to blow his friggen head off....

...I am a time bomb waiting for the right time and place, watch out BILL!

tick.... tick....tick....

Strange. Bill Gates would have a remote control or something - he doesn't need viagra, it's all automatic. Ergh the thought drives me from sanity.

Good night!

I shot the Notable but i did not shoot the regular

The bit that got me laughing about this story was the "He was tracked by the FBI, the Mounties, and a team of computer experts to his bedroom in Clynderwen, PEMBROKESHIRE" section.

Can you imagine a little house in Wales being invaded by the FBI with their guns and kevlar body armour, along with a clutch of Mounties on horseback and a bunch of nerds with laptops?

"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

It's what happens when we get inundated with newbies Ant. :0)

Can't breath for the buggers.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> *looks from side to side*

The topic was hilarious, the fact that
> people didn't get it / took it seriously is funnier.

Hi Sheepy...
> there are computers in Spain? Wow. Learn something every day.

I agree! I can't believe people didn't know it was you!

LOL. {:) Nice one FM.