They turn up pulsing electronic funk music, order pizza and begin furiously hacking into computer networks.
Petersburg Times, Benjamin Smith III was recently arrested in Florida for "hacking into" an open WiFi network.
And then there's high-tech, which we consider to be computer-related, sort of somebody hacking into a computer.
The authorities in Thailand have arrested a university student who reportedly confessed to hacking into the Prime Minister's Twitter account.
Does that power only arise over something as emotional as hacking into the phone of a young female murder victim?
Mr McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 government computers belonging to organisations including the US Navy and Nasa during 2001 and 2002.
Indeed, he was arrested at age 11 for hacking into NSA supercomputers.
We completely understand that Gary McKinnon stands accused of a very important and significant crime in terms of hacking into vital databases.
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Nadeem Kashmiri, a data operator, was charged with hacking into the computer system which allegedly led to money being stolen from customer accounts.
Now 36 years old, Mitnick was arrested in 1995 following a two-year FBI manhunt, and sentenced to 46 months for hacking into corporate computers.
Hacking into automotive microprocessors from the likes of Intel, Bosch, Siemens and Motorola was once the province of engine aficionados and the street-racing set.
"There's a Brazilian journalist who's now being investigated for hacking into phone voice mail, " said Botello, senior director of special projects at the center.
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One of the three, Gottfrid Svartholm, was extradited to Sweden from Cambodia last month and also faces charges of hacking into the IT firm Logica.
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Push to increase criminal penalties for those hacking into these systems.
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The trade in personal data suggests that internet criminals have more or less given up hacking into banking systems and trying to steal databases of customer accounts.
Hacking into someone else's computers is, of course, a crime.
It is also guaranteeing payment protection in case a payment is missed as the result of a fraudster hacking into a customer account and siphoning off all the money.
Lord Justice Leveson is particularly critical of the publishers of the News of the World, over their response to the conviction of the paper's royal correspondent for hacking into phone messages.
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Shawn Henry, president of Crowdstrike and former Executive Assistant Director of the FBI and head of its Cyber Division, is quick to note that his company does not advocate hacking into systems.
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At a point when relations between the news organizations and WikiLeaks were rocky, at least three people associated with this project had inexplicable activity in their e-mail that suggested someone was hacking into their accounts.
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Mr Coulson, who is now working as director of communications for the Conservative Party, resigned from the paper in 2007 after its royal editor was jailed for hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff.
Coulson was the editor of the News of the World newspaper in 2007 when Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were sentenced to prison for hacking into voice mails of members of the royal family's staff.
Well, the 'for Neville' email was an email handed by the police to the lawyers of Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the PFA, the footballers' union, who was suing the News of the World for invading his privacy by hacking into his mobile telephone.
The News of the World's admission to Ms Miller marks a new chapter in a scandal which dates back to 2006, when the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking into the mobile phone voicemails of royal aides.
The royal editor of the News of the World and a private investigator employed by the paper had already been jailed for hacking into phones used by members of the Royal Family, yet it would be fair to say that such occurrences had been met, by the wider public, with a shrug.
Mr Miliband said that the inquiries the government plans to establish - to investigate the police investigation into phone hacking and into press regulation and ethics more generally - should be set up immediately.
Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, the Met Police inquiry into phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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Operation Weeting is an inquiry into alleged phone hacking, while Operation Tuleta is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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Operation Elveden is running alongside Operation Weeting, an inquiry into alleged phone hacking, and Operation Tuleta, which is an investigation into computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
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