Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:rsk From: rsk@pucc-h (Rich Kulawiec (Vombatus Hirsutus)) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Young hacker busted in Phoenix Message-ID: <1364@pucc-h> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 13:27:50 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1364 Posted: Thu Oct 18 13:27:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:29:44 EDT Organization: Purdue, THE Indiana University Lines: 27 (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) -- ---Rsk UUCP: { decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs } !pur-ee!rsk { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax } !purdue!rsk "It'll definitely improve our reputation as a party school." --anonymous Purdue student, on TV-18 (local) news, Saturday, 10/6/84 after a Friday night of spontaneous rioting.