Hacker uses Compute Time to find Prime Numbers

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Hacker uses Compute Time to find Prime Numbers

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday September 16, 1998 @07:43AM from the sounds-like-a-fun-evening dept.

Gary Franczyk writes "A hacker at US West got caught when he decided to use the extra computing power in the systems to try to find extremely large prime numbers. Fortunately, they have not pressed charges yet. "

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