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        -/-  Engineer Sentenced To Community Service  -/-
                            07/12/96

    An engineer who copied a security file from a PC while visiting 
a London branch of Marks & Spencer's has been order to complete 70 
hours of community service. Edward Yearly, aged 29, a former 
Olivetti PC engineer of Hemel Hempstead, was convicted last month of 
gaining unauthorized access to computer material in October, 1994. He 
was charged under the Computer Misuse Act.
    In Bow Street Magistrates Court this week, the court heard how 
Yearley went to the PC maintenance department at Marks & Spencer's 
Harrow branch in 1994. During the visit, he copied security 
information files to a floppy disk. Later, he posted the file to the 
Gates of the Underworld bulletin board system where he was known as 
"Mr Ed."
    Crown solicitors said that the file was instantly traceable to 
the Harrow branch of Marks & Spencer's. Later, when undercover police 
officers logged onto the underground BBS, which was supposed only 
accessible to hackers paying an annual fee, they discovered the file 
that "Mr Ed" had posted.
    After subsequent investigation, Yearley's home was raided by 
police and his home PC and significant quantities of floppy disks 
were confiscated.
    In court, Yearley denied being a member of the Gates of the 
Underworld BBS, but admitted to being a member of other BBSs. Police 
were able to prove to the court that "Mr Ed" was Yearley's nickname 
on the BBS and that the file on his PC was the same one uploaded to 
the BBS.
    Paul Clark, the Magistrate in the case, said that there was an 
element of breach of trust that Yearley had broken. "It's fair to 
say that a certain amount of knowledge and expertise is needed to 
commit an offense such as this," he said.
    Clark went on to say that there was no question of personal 
profit for Yearley, and no gain and no loss to Marks & Spencer. 
"But the scope for other people to misuse the information that was 
downloaded is hard to judge," he told the court.
    Yearley was sentenced to 70 hours community service and ordered 
to pay UKP 170 costs to the prosecution; his computer was also 
released from police custody. "Although your own personal computer 
was seized and evidence gathered from it, your own computer was 
not used for committing the offence or facilitating it," the 
Magistrate noted.

     This is Jacked:

        Why you ask, this is why. Some asshole goes to a damned foreign
country hacks into a law offices business files. Steals something of
some importance. Brings it back to the united states(like he should) 
posts on what sounds like a gay ass bbs. Why would a H/P board make it's
members pay. That sysop had to be a dick. H/P material should be freely
distrubted for informational purposes only of course. Then he gets busted
in the United States of America for a crime he committed in another 
country. I don't think that sounds right. They should of dragged his ass
back to england because they don't give a shit there. Anyways here were
his mistakes:

 Mistake 1: His handle has to go "MR ED" come on. What the hell.
 Mistake 2: Posting the information on a lame board.
 Mistake 3: Not encrypting valueable information of that sort.
 Mistake 4: By lying in court, his ass was cooked anyways. I mean
            I would probably lie too, but when he did and they had
            proof that he was the guy, he only buried his ass a 
            deeper hole to shit in.
 Mistake 5: He didn't send his information to ROT where it would
            have been protected correctly disposed of if any
            government officials were to try and obtain it.

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