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."

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Re:My Ambition

[rk]

Assuming you're not trolling, subscribers get to preview summaries before they are posted to the front page. The previews are bordered in red, so you know they have not yet gone live.

This is true, but I'm no longer a subscriber, and I've noticed the red border myself a few times. It's enough to make me check if anyone bought me a gift subscription and they haven't. My semi-educated guess is there's some non-atomic publish update occurring, where the article is published, but the "Mysterious Future!" theming is not yet updated.

Re:My Ambition

[multisync]

... I'm no longer a subscriber, and I've noticed the red border myself a few times

Interesting. Being a subscriber, nothing looked out of place to me, and there seems to be a lot of comments like the one I replied to lately. After posting, I noticed this one in an earlier story.

My semi-educated guess is there's some non-atomic publish update occurring, where the article is published, but the "Mysterious Future!" theming is not yet updated.

Good point. Never attribute to malice anything that can be explained by buggy slashcode ;-)