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MAFIABOY

Started reading this book, a recent release, about a 15-year old hacker that was hunted down by the CIA, RCMP and FBI.

After about 30 pages I just couldn't take it anymore, as I found him arrogant and irritating. I must be old school or something.

http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=854375

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'Mafiaboy' Sentenced to 8 Months
Wired News Report Email 09.13.01
"Mafiaboy," the Canadian teenager who launched a denial-of-service attack that paralyzed many of the Internet's major sites for one week in February 2000, will be spending the next eight months in a youth detention center.

Judge Gilled Ouellet, who presided over the trial in Quebec's Youth Court, handed down the ruling on Wednesday.

Ouellet said that the 17-yeat-old had committed a criminal act when he attacked Yahoo, eBay and Amazon and other major Internet sites.

"This is a grave matter. This attack weakened the entire electronic communication system," Ouellet told the court. "And the motivation was undeniable, this adolescent had a criminal intent."

Prosecutor Louis Miville-Deschenes said that he hoped the sentence would send "a strong message to the hacker world."

Mafiaboy will also serve one year of probation after his release from the detention center. During his probation he will be allowed to attend school and have a part-time job.

He was also ordered by Ouellet to donate $250 to charity.

Mafiaboy's real name has not been released by the court, due to the Canadian law that protects the identity of offenders under 18 years of age.

Defense lawyer Yan Romanowski said that his client was shocked and saddened by his sentence and is considering an appeal.

"He hoped the judge had understood that he had had his lesson and that detention was not a proper remedy in these circumstances," Romanowski said.

"Detention is too much as far as I am concerned," Romanowski added.

The maximum sentence Mafiaboy could have received was two years in detention. Prosecutor Louis Miville-Deschenes had asked the court to sentence Mafiaboy to one year of detention.

"We think it is a reasonable ruling. It sends a strong message to hackers that they will get caught if they do things like that," Miville-Deschenes told reporters after court was dismissed.