conviction_status birth_place alias conviction_penalty name birth_date article_title charge
currently serving time boston , massachusetts `` little hacker '' 135 months in prison mathew weigman 29 june 2009 matthew weigman
 conspiring in swatting pranks
matthew weigman

matthew weigman is a blind american man who used his heightened hearing ability to help him deceive telephone operators and fake various in-band phone signals .
before getting arrested at the age of 18 , weigman had used this ability to become a well known phone phreaker , memorizing phone numbers by tone and performing uncanny imitations of various phone line operators to perform pranks such as swatting on his rivals .
