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Fishman said there was no evidence that the two men used the information they acquired for criminal purposes. Authorities cautioned, however, that the information could have wound up in the hands of spammers and scammers. Daniel Spitler, a 26-year-old bookstore security guard from San Francisco, and Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., face charges of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization. Fishman characterized the men and their cohorts as engaging in "malicious one-upsmanship" as they sought to impress each other and others in the online community. "We don't tolerate committing crimes for street cred," Fishman said. "Computer hacking is not a competitive sport, and security breaches are not a game." Spitler appeared in U.S. District Court in Newark on Tuesday and was released on $50,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 bail. U.S. Magistrate Claire Cecchi ordered him not to use the Internet except at his job at a Borders bookstore. He is scheduled to be back in court on March 7. Auernheimer was to make a court appearance later Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fayetteville. The stolen e-mail Advertisementaddresses are unlikely to be the basis for identity theft, but a spammer armed with the addresses could send e-mail pretending to be from Apple or AT&T, which th