New York and federal police seized over $50,000 in computer equipment and arrested 13 people August 16, according to the New York State Police: the Teleputing Hotline reports that a 14-year old was accused of organising the ring, which illegally obtained a C language source program from the City University in Bellevue, Washington with a value of $1.2m; five adults were arrested in the sweep – four university students and an unemployed electronics technician; the 14-year old gang leader, called Zod, is also a suspect in an electronic break-in into a Pentagon-based Air Force computer; one of the accused said the gang merely dialled a bulletin board and were unaware they had gee golly – become illegally connected to a mainframe across the country – but he would say that, wouldn’t he.
