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Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cashing-in-on-your-crimes dept.

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. WARNING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bought this book, but it intentionally contained too many pages and overflowed my bookcase. It fell off the end, and gave my cat a fatal error. While I was in the back garden burying Muffins, he sneaked into my house and stole all my stuff!

    1. Re:WARNING! by YttriumOxide · · Score: 5, Funny

      I bought this book, but it intentionally contained too many pages and overflowed my bookcase. It fell off the end, and gave my cat a fatal error. While I was in the back garden burying Muffins, he sneaked into my house and stole all my stuff!

      It took me three readings of that to parse that "Muffins" was the name of your cat. My first impression of your post was a lot more surreal.

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    2. Re:WARNING! by LizardKing · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Are you awake dear? I feel the need to bury my muffins".

    3. Re:WARNING! by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sigh. "Can we do it here? I'm not doing it in the damn garden again."

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      I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
  2. What a joke. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like he paid for his crime...

    Oh wait. He is being paid for his crime?

    WTF

  3. Re:Books by crooks by Coldness · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it does have a nice rhyme to it..

  4. Re:7 years ago two planes flew into the Twin Tower by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 5, Funny

    I belive its called Giuliani's rule

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    IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
  5. Re:But i thought... by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, I'm 93 and I still have gaps of judgement.

    Oh wait, those are gaps of memory.

    Get off my lawn!

  6. Re:Books by crooks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No. People here will torrent it.

  7. Re:Books by crooks by aproposofwhat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Would you, could you, buy this book,
    Aware the author is a crook?
    I would not buy this cracker's sham,
    I do not like it, Sam I Am!

    (apologies to the great Dr Seuss :P)

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    One swallow does not a fellatrix make
  8. Re:But i thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet?

    Got to love how Canadians write a statement... that ends with a question mark.

  9. Re:But i thought... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Senator McCain, is that you?

  10. Re:But i thought... by SuperSlug · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet?

    Got to love how Canadians write a statement... that ends with a question mark.

    Probably because Canada is not part of the US yet, eh?

    There fixed it for ya.

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    The information wants to be free, I just give it somewhere to go.
  11. Re:But i thought... by banffbug · · Score: 2, Funny

    its' +4 now. Maybe I'll get a +5 for pointing that out. and one of the hidden comments was actually a score 5. wtf...

  12. Re:But i thought... by Sentry21 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry. Once Phase One is complete and your economy has crashed, we'll start Phase Two. Once we've bought up your economy and banks, your chance to be Canada's fourth territory will commence.