University of Texas hacker trial begins
Local news for us here in Austin.
Steven Kreytak writes in the Austin American Stateman (registration required):
Christopher Phillips is a computer nerd who hacked the University of Texas' network as a challenge and kept the names and Social Security numbers he retrieved as trophies, his lawyer told a federal jury in Austin on Monday.
"There will be no evidence that he used any of them to harm a soul," Steve Brittain said at the start of Phillips' trial before U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel.
The 22-year-old former UT computer sciences student is facing up to five years in prison on each of the four counts against him. Federal prosecutors say that in 2002 and 2003 he stole 37,000 names and Social Security numbers of faculty, students and others whose personal information was in the university's computer network.
"He found a back door into the entire UT system," Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Roomberg said in his opening statement.
posted by Fergie @ 6/07/2005 07:11:00 AM
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