Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master

Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master
Dan Goodin, The Register 2008-05-09

One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker named "SoBe" opened his front door to find a swarm of FBI agents descending on his family's three-story house in Boca Raton, Florida. With an arm and leg in casts from a recent motorcycle accident, one agent grabbed his good arm while others seized thousands of dollars worth of computers, video game consoles and other electronics. His parents looked on.

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Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-11
Anonymous (1 replies)

hats sad, the kid might have been scamming the gov. but he didnt mean to hurt anyone! he was just haveing fun! and i congradulate him couse now everyoone knows how weak ower gov. is!!!...

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Re: Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-15
Anonymous

Having fun is one thing. Having fun with someone else's system is another.

The fact is, this kid didn't have any form of guidance (valued principles) while he grew up. He didn't want to pay the price to take the legit path in life. That is, to get a degree, earn a living the honest way. (He even ...

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Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-13
Anonymous (1 replies)

These people can't be that intelligent... They do things from their home, with their real names. Its trivial to hide from investigations, encrypt all of your conversations, don't brag about things on IRC, etc. Getting the money in your hands is the hardest part....

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Re: Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-15
Anonymous

They aren't that Intelligent, obviously because they got caught. The sad thing is the fact that the parents are facing the same thing as the parents in the inner city. This time their kids arent dealing drugs because its quick cash. They are doing computer crimes.

School is boring, but being a s...

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teen bot master 2008-05-15
Lizard

Here I was thinking that there was a lot more money being made on this stuff - like in the hundreds of thousands. I have to agree tho, that being the "bad guy" is much more appealing that trying to find the bad guy. ...

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Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-15
Anonymous

I think you mean he compromised machines belonging to the Defense Information System Agency (DISA) as far as I know there is no Defense Information Security Agency. ...

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