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A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his own site, CardersMarket, the largest crime forum in the world, with 6,000 users. But it also made the feds determined to catch him, since one of the sites he hacked, DarkMarket.ws, was secretly a sting operation run by the FBI."
Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
I went to school with Max Butler. He's driven by constant challenges. I knew Max as a friend and as such witnessed the same vitriol and hatred he put up with from others who did not understand him. Teachers often openly mocked him, especially in computer science courses.
His escape from it all came from hacking. He noticed he had a particular knack for it. He'd get really engrossed, and it became sort of a downward spiral from there. If you know anyone like him, please do not ostracize him in his forming years. Imagine if he had been a solid, contributing member of society like timecop, or the millions of other good natured people that run trolling organizations that specialize in making fools out of idiots like yourself.
Wouldn't decimating them mean having to leave 90% of the logins?
I had but a simple dream, to destroy all humans.
The USS cracked
Sounds like the worst name ever for a ship.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
you all must be new here.
Please stop bringing me into this!
I got some bad grammar
Don't forget "green hat." Those are hackers who shut down computers across the globe in order to reduce the world's carbon footprint.