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The second to last paragraph especially highlight federal cases being blown out of proportion, even ten years ago.
by subsystem 14y ago
The second to last paragraph especially highlight federal cases being blown out of proportion, even ten years ago.
- zalew 14y agoif you're interested in hacker stories there is one a bit less mainstream about Max Butler, 'Kingpin', it's a really great read (more like a criminal thriller than a nerd bio). long story short a very talented but very troubled white/grayhat hacker became a victim of the justice system and later on turned into a blackhat who got to the top of the cc fraud empire. he's currently serving his 13.
- packetslave 14y agoAlso written by a fairly notorious former hacker, Kevin Poulson.
- zalew 14y agoyep. here's his article[1] which is basically a TLDR (or teaser) for the book, but I'd recommend people read the book without spoilers, more fun (I didn't know the story details when I bought the book). [1] http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/ff_max_butler?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/ff_max_bu...