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He’s the Ottawa hacker who liked to brag at school about his online powers, the ones he abused.

Out of twisted revenge for his own troubles at school, the 16-year-old boy launched a dark online campaign in 2014, first by calling in a fake bomb threat at his own school, and then beyond.

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And he made time to taunt police on Twitter, saying “Catch me if you can.”

Well, they did.

On Friday, the Barrhaven teen who terrorized children by calling in fake bomb threats at schools across Canada and the United States was convicted of the swatting crimes.

Ontario Court Justice Mitch Hoffman found the teen guilty on 34 counts (from public mischief to uttering threats) related to a series of fake bomb calls that prompted SWAT teams to respond to schools from Calgary to Florida.

The boy used a Twitter account to advertise his swatter-for-hire services, and business was brisk, with troubled teens enlisting him to call in bomb threats to their schools.