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his recreational intrusions into Pentagon and NASA computers—the first term of confinement ever handed down in a juvenile hacking case.

To all appearances, federal law enforcement now had firm control of the computer intrusions that had for so long struck fear into corporate America and government officials. In truth, all these victories were battles in yesterday's cyberwar against bedroom hackers, a dying breed. Even as Max copped his plea in a San Jose courtroom, the FBI was discovering a twenty-first-century threat gathering five thousand miles away—one intimately entwined with Max Vision's future.