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"I did not act with a destructive aim. I wanted to warn them, to show up the faults in the system," said the 23yearold, who was arrested this week after an operation by French police and FBI agents.

The curlyhaired unemployed computer technician wore a pair of slippers adorned with smiley faces as he sat in his parents' home in central France and told of how he broke into the popular microblogging site.

Francois C., who spoke on condition that his full surname not be used, is accused of breaking into Twitter and Google accounts, including ones used by US president Obama and pop star Spears.

He has been bailed and is due to appear in court on June 24 and faces up to two years in jail if convicted of hacking into a database.

In April last year he finally cracked the site's administrator codes and then got into the accounts of people like Obama and make screen captures which he posted on chat forums, he said.

"Everyone thought it was a joke until Twitter complained," he said.

Francois, the eldest of six children, lives with his parents in their modest home in Beaumont, a small town of 12,000 people near ClermontFerrand, the city where he will go on trial in June.

His mother said that her son had "always been very introverted."

"I don't know anything about computers," she said.

"I knew he spent a lot of time on his computer but I never thought it would end like this."

Francois said he does not go out much and spends up to 10 hours a day surfing the web. "It's my only passion," he said.

His father gave him his first computer when he was eight. He got into video games and then started exploring the Internet when he was 14, he said.

'Warning, not hacking'

He attacked Twitter simply to show "that big companies are no more secure than any internet user. That's the message I wanted to get across."

"I am not a hacker. I am a kind pirate," said Francois, who did a computer technician course last year but has been isabel marant shoes unable to find a job.

Local prosecutor JeanYves http://www.isabelmaranton.com/ Coquillat agreed.

"He is not a hacker in the classic sense. He entered a house whose door had been left open."

This is not the first time Francois has been in trouble with the law. Last year he was given a suspended eightmonth prison sentence and a small fine for gambling online with money that did not belong to him, police said.

San Franciscobased Twitter did not immediately reply to an enquiry about his arrest while the FBI said it was looking into the report.

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Twitter founder Evan Williams confirmed to TechCrunch at the time that documents had been obtained, but insisted the hacker did not gain access to any Twitter user accounts. It explains that if you do isabel marant sale not provide us with information we have requested from you, we may not be able to provide you with the goods and services you require. It also explains how you can access or seek correction of your personal information, how you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will deal with a complaint of that nature.