Messing with them will leave you with scars in places that could be hard to explain to any future partner.

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The WANK worm is also believed to be the first worm written by anAustralian, or Australians.

The SPAN team didn't want to believe it, but the evidence was overwhelming.

Australia's early hackers had it easy, until Michael Rosenberg arrived.

`I'm on my way over to pick you up and take you to a lawyer's office where you can get some sort of protection.'

Par hung out with a Morty and a bunch of his friends, drinking and goofing around on Morty's computer.

In 1989, the white hats, as hackers called the professional security gurus, were highly paranoid about Zardoz getting into the wrong hands.

On 6 March 1991, Magistrate Robert Langton committed Electron and Nom to stand trial in the Victorian County Court.

`Your Honour,' Kayser glanced backward slightly, toward the court reporters, as he warmed up, `my client lived in an artificial world of electronic pulses.'

The system had just rung all 1000 numbers at the same time. One thousand phones ringing all at once.

The court was called into session. Prime Suspect stood in the dock and pleaded guilty to 26 counts of computer crimes.

It wasn't like Anthrax screaming at his father until his voice turned to a whisper, all for nothing.

His new interest is music. He plays electric guitar in an amateur band.

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