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What part of illegal don't you understand?

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Something sounds incorrect there. There are tons of "hacking" licenses available in the market (CEH, LPT, GPEN, CHFI, and so on), however to your case anything is incorrect -- he was once relatively no longer meant to intercept your messages with out your permission. Typically, this may end up in proceedings, civil and even crook -- without problems. Unauthorized entry is a federal crime. Whoever did the paintings demands to get his license revoked for certain.

Previous answerer is right: AOL has a team of experienced IT security staff who do nothing all day but stop punks like you.

Better people than you have tried, and failed.

Also, that's pretty immoral.

If your asking this question you won't be able to do it, AIM, Hotmail, and Yahoo! aren't hackable by beginners, let alone by someone who has no knowledge about hacking.