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“This person, we believe, is very, very dangerous, and he needs to be detained and kept away from a computer.”
--Assistant U.S. Atty. Leon Weidman after 25-year-old Kevin Mitnick, who has a long record of computer “hacking,” was charged in two new criminal complaints with doing $4 million damage to a company’s computer, stealing a highly secret computer security system and accessing unauthorized MCI long-distance codes through two university computers in Los Angeles and England.
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