Max Vision

[Andre' Kesteloot]

CYBERNET MANIPULATOR GETS JAIL TERM -- Computer security researcher and
former FBI informant Max
Butler aka 'Max Vision' was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for
launching an Internet worm that crawled through
hundreds of military and defense contractor computers over a few days in
1998. In handing down the sentence, federal judge
James Ware rejected defense attorney Jennifer Granick's argument that
the Air Force, and other victims of the worm,
improperly calculated their financial losses from the hack. The judge
also declined to give Butler credit for his brief stint as an
undercover FBI informant, during which he infiltrated a gang of hackers
that had penetrated 3Com's corporate phone network.