Too stupid to understand what he was doing
A JUDGE accepted a hacker's claim that he was too stupid to know what was going on when he hacked into T-Mobile in 2004.
Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 23, managed to avoid going to jail and was instead sentenced to a year's home detention and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution. Jacobsen said that he lacked "comprehension and maturity" when he targeted T-Mobile and found the names and Social Security numbers of 400 customers.
Jacobsen read data that Special Agent Peter Cavicchia could access through his wireless T-Mobile Sidekick device. US District Judge George King told Jacobsen that what he did was very dangerous to others. "Maybe you didn't fully appreciate that, perhaps because of your youth," he said. More
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