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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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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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