Friday, 27. December 2002
Topic: - on December 27, 2002 at 1:00:10 PM CET
Former computer hacker granted radio license;
may go back online next month
A man the federal government once labeled ''the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history'' has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet. Kevin Mitnick, 39, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., served five years in federal prison for stealing software and altering data at Motorola, Novell, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and the University of Southern California. Prosecutors accused him of causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to corporate computer networks.
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