Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 13:05:09 -0700
From: Bear Giles <bear@tigger.cs.colorado.edu>
Subject: File 9-- NASA hacker sentenced (Reprint from RISKS DIGEST #13.29)

From the 17 March 1992 _Rocky Mountain News_:

Hacker ordered to get mental help  (Reuter)

A computer hacker who pleaded guilty Monday to breaking into NASA
computer systems as ordered to undergo mental health treatment and ndot
use computers without permission from a probation officer.  Richard
Wittman, 24, of Lakewood [Colorado] was sentenced to three years
probation by Denver U.S. District Judge Sherman Finesilver in a rare
prosecution for breaking into a computer system.  Wittman pleaded
guilty last fall to one count of breaking into a National Aeronautics
and Space Administration computer.  Prosecutors said Wittman had spent
four years trying to get into computer systems.  In a plea bargain,
Wittman admitted gaining access to NASA's computer via a malfunction
in a bulletin board service.

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