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Technology & Science

Mar. 23, 2002

Sentencing Panel Will Look Into Hacker's Motives

WASHINGTON - Michael Edmund O'Neill was a computer geek growing up, and he readily admits he sometimes hacked into protected computer systems - not to steal or cause damage, but just for the sport of it.

By James Gordon Meek
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - Michael Edmund O'Neill was a computer geek growing up, and he readily admits he sometimes hacked into protected computer systems - not to steal or cause damage, but just for the sport of it.
        Today he is a law professor and member of the United States Sentencing Com...

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