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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 18 13:27:50 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:29:44 EDT
Organization: Purdue, THE Indiana University
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	(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."

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"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.