The reason I was draw in is Jeff and my son usually played games on the =
computer in the basement here. So I was suspect for my computers were =
also possibly used as was his at his residence

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Slam dunk.
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(I'm sorry to hear that you were drawn into that mess.)
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"Peter Foldes" wrote in message=20
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Not a fairy tale at all and that teenager lives directly across the =
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from me here in Montreal (Ile Bizard). I was also quizzed by the =
authorities=20
since my son is friends with him and he came over often and I was =
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with computers for a living. I had my systems at the time removed by =
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RCMP\FBI\Local Police and was retuned to me after 3 weeks. Was very=20
embarrassing to all.
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Like I said you never know who is who and what is what.
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"JE McGimpsey" wrote in message=20
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Nice fairy tale.

MafiaBoy was a Canadian teenager that perpetrated a DOS attack on =
Yahoo,
Dell, eBay, Amazon.com, etc. - not "hack(ing) IBM,MS,Governments =
etc.".

He was sentenced to 8 months in detention plus one year of probation,
which would have been up 2 years ago. His sentence didn't include any
long-term restriction on computer use.

His dad, btw, was arrested the same day as MafiaBoy was for taking =
out a
contract on a business colleague. Might that have anything to do with
anything?

Given that Content Advisor password removers are still sold, and free
hacks are still posted, if your 95 anecdote is true (I couldn't find
anything via Google, though it didn't sound unfamiliar), it certainly
didn't set much of a precedent.

How does one sue a newsgroup, anyway? Where and to whom would the =
suit
be served?


In article ,
"Peter Foldes" wrote:

Sorry to jump in here but how many of you remember the old Microsoft =

server
newsgroup MSNNEWS. This goes back to 95. It was moderated at the =
time.

There was a post there in 95 where someone posted that he set up the =

Content
Advisor so his kids will not be able to get into certain sites. Now =
he=20
said
that he forgot the Password and needed help. He had numerous answers =
on=20
how
to get around it and open it.

Well about a month later in the newspapers and TV there was the =
story=20
that a
Father is suing MS and that newsgroup for telling his child on how =
to get=20
rid
of that password . BTW he won the case and a large some of money.

The point is you do not know who is who and what is what.

Today that child that did that is not allowed near a computer for =
another=20
3
yrs. His nickname was the Mafia Boy. Yep the same one that made =
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and
International headlines when he hacked IBM,MS,Governments etc.=20
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