-Caveat Lector- Teenage Hacker Escapes Prison Sentence >From Ananova Saturday July 7, 2001 12:37 pm A teenage hacker who admitted using Bill Gates's credit card details to send him Viagra tablets has escaped a prison term. Raphael Gray, 19, said after his trial at Swansea Crown Court he had been mentally prepared to be jailed after pleading guilty to 10 charges of computer fraud. But Judge Gareth Davies ordered the teenager to carry out a three-year community probation order linked to treatment for a mental disorder. Earlier he had heard Gray had suffered from chronic low self-esteem since he was a child, which had contributed to the criminal acts he carried out on the internet. Expert medical evidence put forward by the defence also showed that four years before the offences Grey had fallen and banged his head. The defence produced medical evidence arguing his condition deteriorated to such an extent after the fall it eventually gave rise to the computer fraud he undertook. Gray said after the trial he regretted not what he had done, but the way he did it. "I would do it all again but another time I would choose to ensure that I acted legally," he said. Colin Nicholls QC, defending, had earlier told the court the teenager had attacked secure sites on the internet and released the credit card details of thousands of people on the worldwide web to demonstrate how bad security was. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
