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SHETLAND convicted ‘hacktivist’ Jake Davis, who was brought up in Yell and arrested from his Lerwick home at Hoofields in summer last year, has been speaking about life without ready access to the internet:

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/08/anonymous-behind-masks-cyber-insurgents and

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/09/jake-davis-anonymous-charged-bail?intcmp=239

After pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit computer misuse under the Computer Misuse Act, the 19 year old bailed to an address in Spalding, Lincolnshire. He is due back in court in April next year.

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