The FBI cracks down
Armed with search warrants, the agents came early Wednesday morning to 15 middle-class homes throughout the U.S., peering under beds, pulling out drawers, seizing print-outs and floppy discs. In California, they simultaneously struck four homes within a 40-mile radius of Los Angeles. Wayne Correia, 17, of Irvine, Calif, looked up at 6:15 a.m. to find a man breaking in through his bedroom window. "FBI," the figure announced. "And that computer's mine."
The raids on the homes of young computer enthusiasts in 13 cities were part of a federal investigation into reports of widespread abuse of computer networks. For months...
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