Computer security consultant and confessed cyber intruder Max Butler will serve out his 18-month prison term at the privately-run Taft Correctional Institution in central California, sources say. Butler, known as 'Max Vision' to friends and associates, pleaded guilty last September to . . .
Computer security consultant and confessed cyber intruder Max Butler will serve out his 18-month prison term at the privately-run Taft Correctional Institution in central California, sources say. Butler, known as 'Max Vision' to friends and associates, pleaded guilty last September to launching an automated intrusion program that cracked hundreds of military and defense contractor computers over a few days in 1998. Butler was sentenced in federal court in San Jose, California in May, and he surrendered to the custody of US Marshals last week.

In a telephone interview from a county jail where he was awaiting transit, the newly-incarcerated hacker admitted he crossed the line, but said he thought prison wasn't an appropriate remedy.

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