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After hacking over a two year period from August 1996 to July 1997, Trifero was charged with "knowingly" causing transmission of programs and computer code "to a computer system owned and operated by Dunster House, Harvard College" for the purpose of causing "damage to a computer" and with holding access to that computer, the official charge stated...
...Trifero caused approximately $27,000 in damages at Harvard...
...self-taught computer hacker with formal education limited to some work at community colleges in Rhode Island, Trifero allegedly began his illegal activities through the on-line service bbsnet.com...
According to Stern's report, Trifero broke into the Amherst College computer network on or around August 22, 1996. Amherst alerted bbsnet.com of Trifero's activities and the service cancelled his account...
...week later, Trifero signed up for a new account with the service under an assumed name. However Trifero provided bbsnet.com with the same address he used for his cancelled account...