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Joe Gronlund
Wed 30th Jul '03, 10:28pm
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Self-styled grey hat hacker Jesse Tuttle is fighting charges that he broke into his local council's computer network with a claim that he only did it as part of his work with the FBI.

Tuttle (AKA Hackah Jak), from Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio, claims the Feds sanctioned him to prowl the Net for sensitive computers as part of a deal he signed two years ago. The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/07/28/loc_wwwloc1ahacker28.html) reports that in August 2001 federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges for cracking into the computer system of a New York brokerage firm in return for his subsequent assistance as an informer.

More (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/32079.html)

vB3Dev.Com
Thu 31st Jul '03, 7:28pm
It would not be the first time the FBI ****es someone they hired...