Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job

An anonymous reader writes "It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a potential reality, but this might still be the case in New Zealand. An 18-year-old hacker responsible for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the creation of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud activities to take place, has walked free from court sans conviction despite pleading guilty. And to top it all off, the NZ police force were interested in talking to the hacker about working for them, and 'several computer programming companies' were also chasing him for his skills."

Comments

sure make HIM the victim

[ArchieBunker]

Waaahhh he has Aspergers waaahhh. Does that excuse his behavior? No. Typical defense of making someone out to be the victim of (fill in blank) to gain sympathy. He could have done something useful or even creative but chose this path instead. The only person you are fooling are the idiot mods.