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Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-hate-the-player-hate-the-game dept.

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."

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  1. Kiwis are out of touch by OrangeTide · · Score: -1, Troll

    Typical, they are a decade behind the rest of the world.

    Next thing you know they'll be all rushing to register domain names for amazing new website so they can capture some of that VC money for their startup.

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    “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  2. NZ Article by alex4point0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear /.,

    Eat a cock. I posted this days ago, with a link to the NZ article, and you wait for a UK one?

    The GNAA will hear of this. As will Man/Woman in his never-ending quest to rehabilitate the swastika.

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    By the time you finish reading this sentence will end.
  3. HERE IN THE USA by inTheL00 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Russian Hackers remain free, while hackers of other race are in jail.

    That is because the government is controlled by the Ashkenazi "Jew", which its genetics does not related to the people of Palestine but linked to Russia.

    A scholarly article about the origin of the so called "Jews":

    http://catholicvoice.co.uk/khazar.htm

  4. Re:RTFA, he has Asberger's by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's even worse about it is that I can see being a arsehole is kind of not your fault if you're really dumb (say IQ<80 ). But Assburgers sufferers, especially the self diagnosed ones are not that dumb. Sure they're not geniuses, but they're smarter than average, and they should learn some way to not be an arsehole.

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  5. Re:Old by v1k · · Score: 0, Troll

    And you can't spell either. Just go hang yourself.