Pentagon Kids Kicked Off Grid Reuters

11:47 a.m. 6.Nov.98.PST Two California teenagers who mounted what the Pentagon >called one the most systematic attacks ever made against a US military computer >network were sentenced by a federal judge Thursday.

US District Judge Maxine Chesney doled out the usual punishment for those convicted >of computer crimes: No more computers. The boys, aged 16 and 17, are barred from >using modems or computers without supervision during their

three-year probation.

The judge forbade the hackers from possessing or using a computer modem,

acting as >computer consultants, or having any contact with computers out of sight of "a school >teacher, librarian, employer, or other person approved by the probation officer." Usual laugh. Not technically feasible to mount this sort of Denial of Service attack unless you actually imprison them. Computers and connections are a bit too ubiquitous. DCF