http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,500218557-500310972-501732187-0,00.html
 
By JAMES ROSEN, Nando Washington Bureau

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One of the country's most notorious hackers, a former Raleigh, N.C.,
resident named Kevin Mitnick, was convicted of committing 25 felonies
last year after a decade-long series of assaults on government and
private computer databases.

[Mitnick plead guilty to 5 or 7 charges. He was NOT convicted of 25.]

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