An nameless reader writes "It has been a number of years since the fantasy that hackers will be offered a job by those who they hacked was even a budding reality, but this might still be the case in New Zealand. An 18-year-old hacker amendable for writing a number of applications used by an online group called 'the A-Team' that allowed the establishment of a million-plus machine botnet and a range of credit card fraud activities to take place, has walked free from court sans conviction despite pleading guilty. And to top it all off, the NZ police force were involved


copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group in talking to the hacker about working for them, and 'several laptop* neural networks companies' were also chasing him for his skills."

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