<story><title>The Great Cyberheist</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?ref=technology</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teye</author><text>Shadowcrew was an awesome place. You could get pretty much anything there. The marketplace was built on reputation -- you&apos;d send a new offering to the senior members, who&apos;d review you.&lt;p&gt;The coolest guy there was MacGyver. He knew everything about everything. You&apos;d ask for feedback on the new SSN cards you were selling and he&apos;d casually drop that the SSA used band printers back when your card would have been issued, so there should be little marks here or there.&lt;p&gt;From what I could tell, he never profited from any activity there, but being a senior member and receiving goods for review, receiving credit card blanks and numbers was enough to put him away. By the time it occurred to me I could send him a letter in prison, he was already out.&lt;p&gt;Sure, he was indirectly contributing to illegal activity, but to a kid looking for fake ID info, he was a god.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Great Cyberheist</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14Hacker-t.html?ref=technology</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blaines</author><text>This article is long, but really good, it reads like a movie.&lt;p&gt;Gonzalez not only hacked computer networks, but also personal networks. He may not have been great at code, but he was definitely good at navigating social structures. Gonzalez was certainly a great hacker, but not necessarily good.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ll be keeping my eye out for author James Verini in the future, this was a great read.</text></comment>