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The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple's internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail. A magistrate judge in the Melbourne children's court sentenced the young man – now an adult at 19 but who was 16 at the time he broke the law – to eight months probation with no …

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  1. goldcd

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    Damn, I double posted, and there's no delete button.

    Sorry.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      "Damn, I double posted, and there's no delete button."

      There is a Withdraw link on the right side of your msg...

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  2. goldcd

    Jeesus

    You'd think if a random 16 year old had managed to break into your systems TWICE, you'd just give him a job with a gag-clause.

    Good thing the Russians are rubbish with computers, or we'd be in real trouble.

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    1. DCFusor
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      I'm sure the Russians would take UMBRAGE at that remark,

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    2. jmch Silver badge
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      "You'd think if a random 16 year old had managed to break into your systems TWICE, you'd just give him a job... "

      Maybe his failure to cover his tracks / IP address sufficiently mean that he wasn't so worthy of a job offer after all. Of course if a not-so-talented hacker managed to break in to Apple TWICE, I have to wonder how secure their systems are in the first place...

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    No autism diagnosis? Professor Baron-Cohen, I am disappoint.

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  4. Aodhhan

    Since he used Ubuntu to break into Apple, there will be no job waiting. However, the magistrate appears to be a UNIX geek; lucky for him!

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  5. Daniel B.

    Well done

    This is now my top El Reg headline!

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