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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."
...so I'll be driving everywhere with my foot to the floor, hoping for a drive by 2010!
This is a great step forward for black hats everywhere! And a great step forward for aspiring CS students ... and a step back for mankind. *siigh*
at least it was 2 forward and one back...
Oh great. I'm twenty and I'm comparitively useless and old. That's so depressing. :(
Now you just have to grow your hair long and look depressed and you too can be like him.
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Sure, sure, but did any of the papers also happen to mention something about a bj?
...why! This goes against everything my parents ever told me!
They're also behind their sheep. *ba-dum-tsh*
What they really should have done is force him to work for them. The logic for most crimes should be: commit a crime, be forced to work with police to prevent crime. The more they get, the easier it is to catch others, the more they get etc. Of course if he doesn't even have to do that, then I just hope he'll get murdered.
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Typical, they are a decade behind the rest of the world.
Yeah the "world" is so ahead isn't it. Poor Kiwis, why haven't they got all their troops in the middle east already, and a mortgage crisis, and incalculable foreign debt and nuclear power and massive prisons and... and when can I move there?
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Obviously he hacked the news sites to change the number.
So did he say to himself on the way to the interview, "I just love it when a plan comes together!"?
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