A former coworker of mine was a convicted "hacker" who did time in federal prison for it. Part of his story was told in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. The c

A former coworker of mine was a convicted "hacker" who did time in federal prison for it. Part of his story was told in Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg. The coworker told me that he had stuck at the current company for many years because he felt that his reputation, including a Wikipedia page, would prevent him from getting another good job. I told him I thought it might help him more than hurt him, and he just shook his head sadly. But then a year later he did start a job hunt, and found an excellent high level position at a large successful outfit almost immediately. He's still there. They knew who he was and what he did. I think that rep helped him more than a little. It depends what you did of course. In his case the only plausible "victim" was AT&T, and he disputes that too.