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14 Year Old Call of Duty Hacker Hired by Microsoft
- jackolas 15y agoI'm not surprised this has happened but I wouldn't expect this from Microsoft nor with a person who has defrauded others after hacking a system.
- citricsquid 15y agoMaybe it's a double bluff thing, like when Valve caught the Half Life leaker: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-sto...
- yurisagalov 15y agoI actually thought this article was significantly better than the parent article, and is definitely worth a read.
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- estel 15y agoI don't see anything in that statement equivalent to "hired". Is there another source that indicates this?
- Gunther 15y agoI agree, it sounds as though they are "reeducating" him into a white hat and not necessarily hiring him on as a employee. It would surprise me if they actually hired him right now because he had set up a phishing scam. It is good though that they are working with him vs throwing the book at him especially for one so young.
- rzitex 15y agoHuh, I should be happy for Microsoft hiring a practiced phisher. Sounds like a good advancement for them.
- patio11 15y agoA friend of mine from high school bragged that he achieved some measure of infamy in middle school by hacking Diablo in such a manner that it was possible to duplicate items. He then claimed Blizzard offered him an internship -- again, in high school -- for showing them how he did it. I knew about the incident (oh, the wages of a misspent youth -- Diablo, not hacking), but always figured he was embellishing most of it. Some years later, sure enough, guess who was in the Diablo II credits.
- iam 15y agoHired a phisher? Thought they were hiring someone who was making wallhacks or aimbots or anything like that. That would've made much more sense. Put a guy like that into security!
- losethos 15y agoApple would be more appropriate -- Woz did a phone hack, right?