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In the last decade, San Francisco was home to one of the world’s most powerful cybercriminals … a man who oversaw a network of identity thieves who stole billions of dollars from credit card companies. But he wasn’t just a bad guy – he worked on both sides of the law, using his hacking skills to fix some system weaknesses even as he exploited others.
That’s the story Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen tells in his book Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. He sat down with KALW’s Ben Trefny to talk about how it happened.
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April 4, 2011
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The Information Age has spawned a new kind of criminal. Not one who knocks over banks through armed robbery. No. It’s the kind that sits at a laptop and sneaks inside digital vaults to steal money.
In the last decade, San Francisco was home to one of the world’s most powerful cybercriminals … a man who oversaw a network of identity thieves who stole billions of dollars from credit card companies. But he wasn’t just a bad guy – he worked on both sides of the law, using his hacking skills to fix some system weaknesses even as he exploited others.
That’s the story Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen tells in his book Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. He sat down with KALW’s Ben Trefny to talk about how it happened.
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