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Intel 'hacker' conviction quashed |
A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company's systems expunged, after a battle lasting more than a decade.
Randall Schwartz had his arrest and conviction for bypassing Intel security systems "set aside" at the beginning of February, legally giving him a clean slate.
Schwartz was arrested in 1993 after using a program called "Crack" to find out the passwords of various former colleagues in the Intel Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD). Schwartz had left SSD under a cloud, and told the court he decided to crack the Intel passwords to show that SSD's security had gone downhill since he had left, and to re-establish respect he said he had lost when he left SSD.
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