It would be foolish to dismiss this guy based on a belief that someone that good would not be working independently. Maybe he's got a record that governments an

It would be foolish to dismiss this guy based on a belief that someone that good would not be working independently. Maybe he's got a record that governments and security firms don't want to touch. Maybe he's philosophically opposed to working with governments. Who knows? At the moment, I'm reading Kevin Mitnick's Ghost in the Wires (awesome book, by the way). He pretty much owned the entire phone system in California. In some cases, he was able to do things even phone company techs were not able to do. About halfway through the book he describes how he was able to tap the people tapping his own phone lines. What he pulled off was absolutely massive. The phone companies didn't even want to report some of it because of how ridiculous they would look for letting it happen. And as good as he was, no employer wanted to touch him with a 10 foot pole. My point is that unbelievably huge breaches can be and have been pulled off before. As for him announcing it publicly, I can only speculate on his motives. Maybe he wants to see them squirm. Maybe he's feeling a bit invincible right now. I don't know. But I sure wouldn't dismiss him as full of shit because the claims are so audacious or for the fact that he's bragging about it. We do know that a breach occurred and the victims sure as hell aren't going to reveal the full extent.