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Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On

An anonymous reader writes "Eight years ago Mafiaboy (Michael Calce) knocked Yahoo offline. Today he he works as a legitimate security consultant and has just published a book documenting his criminal career and offering advice on how people can protect themselves from people like him on the Internet."

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  1. Re:But i thought... by magawr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, I agree. If he hasn't given the profits to help eliminate crime then he should be prosecuted for this under the federal statute. Or has our learned fathers saw fit to provide a loophole so that they might profit from such an endeavor.

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  2. Deterence... by way2trivial · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is almost nothing you could have done to deter me from those actions.

    What if the month before a vigilante group of Yahoo fanpunks had made Michael Calce swallow his own testicles and released the video on You Tube?

    would you still have been as willing to phreak then?

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  3. Re:Words of Wisdom from a Script Kiddie by tecopa03 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course he's going to say that. He's now going to live off of FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt).

    He's a kiddie, and will always be a kiddie. And his opinion is just that.