Computer hacker receives one year sentence
- Title
- Computer hacker receives one year sentence
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 7 Jun 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:01:15
- Description
- Computer hacker Nicholas Whitely has been given a 1 year sentence suspended for 8 months after he replaced vital data in unversities around the country with odd phrases in a case which has made legal history. James Matthews reports from Southwark Crown Court. Includes interview with his distressed mother Betty Whitely.
- Contributors
- James Matthews; Betty Whitely
- Keywords
- Data protection; Crime; Southwark; Imprisonment; Trials; Computers; Sentencing; Nicholas Whitely
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