February 15, 2005 5:30 AM PST

Man pleads guilty to hacking WebTV

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The prank directed people's computers to dial 911 instead of Microsoft's service.

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Its a prank: The problem was the 911 is emergency and not to be played with

Now a 900 ### #### call - that would be funny
Posted by qazwiz (208 comments ): February 16, 2005 9:18 AM (PST) Like Reply Link Flag

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