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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon confirmed what Richard Smith already suspected: that someone had hijacked skyroket@aol.com's account. (The real owner, Scott Steinmetz of Lynnwood, Wash., squeezed a good 15 min. of fame out of the mix-up.) The culprit, AOL discovered, had logged on from New Jersey. A high-tech FBI-police unit there narrowed the possibilities still further. "Eventually," says deputy attorney general Christopher Bubb, "we were able to trace it back to the specific telephone that was being used." It belonged to David Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How They Caught Him | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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