![]() Jon, who was sentenced to 240 hours of community work, fuels a popular image: the teenage loner who takes refuge in cyberspace, unable to resist the allure of the Net's nefarious subcultures. The 17-year-old former boy scout revealed in court that since quitting school two years ago, he had spent up to 15 hours a day on the Internet on his home computer. Just one month after police in Montreal arrested accused cyber-vandal Mafiaboy, another Montreal computer whiz-kid known as Jon pleaded guilty last week to playing havoc with data systems at NASA, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The boy at the centre of Canada's latest teen hacker drama was almost too perfect a stereotype.
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