From: mea culpa (jerichoDIMENSIONAL.COM)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 13:02:19 CDT

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[Moderator: I understand legal loopholes, but this is absurd. Because I
 don't post a sign on my house saying "It is illegal to break in",
 someone can legally break my window and steal from me? I think not.]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg016.htm

09/02/99- Updated 01:34 PM ET

Teens plead innocent in hacking case

JERUSALEM (AP) - Four teen-agers charged with hacking into the computer
systems of the Pentagon, NASA and the Israeli parliament pleaded innocent
Thursday, the lawyer for the alleged ringleader said. Shmuel Tzang said
his client, Ehud Tenenbaum, 19, broke no law when he penetrated the
Internet sites of American and Israeli institutions because there was no
notice on the sites declaring them off-limits.

The other defendants are Guy Fleisher, Ariel Rosenfeld and Rafael Ohana.
Their ages were not given, but the indictment said they were all born in
1979, making them all 19 or 20. Another defendant, Barak Abutbul, has
confessed to helping Tenenbaum break into the computer systems and has
agreed to testify against him in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Police have said that Tenenbaum, who used the name ``The Analyzer'' on the
Internet, was the group leader and tutored the others in the unauthorized
penetration of computer systems.

An Israeli magistrate ordered charges that the teens broke into computer
systems of extremist groups in the United States dropped, and asked the
two sides to reduce their witness lists by having some people submit
affidavits instead of testifying, Tzang said.

The original list includes 10 U.S. witnesses, mostly FBI agents, who would
be flown in from the United States at Israel's expense.

Tenenbaum did not address the court as his lawyer entered the plea. The
two sides will return to court Oct. 10 to tell the judge if they were able
to reduce the number of witnesses. A trial date has not yet been set.

The defendants face a maximum sentence of three years in prison if
convicted. None are in custody.

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