, SecurityFocus 2001-05-08
FBI agents called him 'the Equalizer': a security expert and confessed hacker who infiltrated the electronic underground to help the Bureau. When he drew the line at bugging a friend, they threw the book at him.
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He was guilty of a punishable crime regardless of his cooperation.
He was a mole in the hacker-world - turning in hackers left and right just to save his own behind.
He only put on the brakes when the person he was supposed to rat on happened to be his friend. So, some semblance of loyalty popped into his head and he balked. It wasn't just some faceless "joe" that he was putting the hit on anymore. Wow, how admirable. It's not like that should inspire THAT much sympathy.
Yes, the FBI wasn't playing nice....downright low-down actually. But Max was a rat caught in a trap of his own devising.
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