And how many of our most successful hacker/entrepreneurs are former computer criminals? I'm not just talking about breaking into the high school's web server -

And how many of our most successful hacker/entrepreneurs are former computer criminals? I'm not just talking about breaking into the high school's web server -- I'm talking serious scam artistry. I know several Romanian hackers for whom this was a rite of passage while growing up. They all have respectable jobs at huge software firms now, often in charge of security or financial apps.