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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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Thoughts of a Teenage Bot Master 2008-05-13
Anonymous
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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