FBI, LAPD QUESTION 17-YEAR-OLD HACKER.Byline: Robert Monroe Staff Writer A New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). teen-ager who boasted to investigators that he hacked into Web sites has been questioned by the FBI and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police, officials said Thursday. The 17-year-old, self-described hacker A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes. named ``Coolio'' told FBI agents he had broken into more than 100 Web sites, including ones run by the federal government, an Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. company and a Los Angeles anti-drug campaign, officials said. ``He said he had used computers since he was 3 years old and spent 16 hours a day on the Internet,'' said LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officer Joe Buscaino. ``He admitted to compromising over 100 sites on the Internet.'' Authorities expect to meet today to discuss whether to file charges against him. Los Angeles police said detectives got involved in the investigation because the DARE Web site is based in Los Angeles and authorities in a New Hampshire city asked in mid-December for the computer crimes unit's help and expertise. They could not say when the alleged vandalism of the DARE site had been reported to detectives. Los Angeles police and federal officials offered conflicting accounts of whether the youngster was under arrest. Authorities are expected to meet today in an effort to determine whether to seek charges against the teen-ager. |
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