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
by qazwiz February 16, 2005 9:18 AM PST: The problem was the 911 is emergency and not to be played with

Now a 900 ### #### call - that would be funny; Like this Reply to this comment

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