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S1 Ep14: I Hacked The US Government Aged 16
Extraordinary Lives
The 84 Charges of Compute Air Macy's Act
"I was released on bail after 24 hours. And I wasn't charged with anything at a time because they needed more events," he says. "They did not actually charge me with Compute Air Macy's Act." Instead, the charges were against him for criminal conspiracy to commit a crime. The companies that we were accused of hacking weren't actually hacked by us. They just pretended to be hacked by us and we paid along with it - which is kind of like childish to them or way to get pressed for them.
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Speaker 1
And do
Speaker 2
you think they were surprised? Because presumably when they turned up to your house, they were going, right, we're arresting this guy for some pretty serious hacking offenses, 84 different arrests, go to the house and it's a 16 year old kid. Do you think they were surprised by that? Or do you think they already sort of knew who you were?
Speaker 1
Well, I think they must have known who I was was because I don't think they would have just came to my house. They might they must have done some kind of like in person surveillance or something like that, or more more investigation. What
Speaker 2
happens next? I was
Speaker 1
released on bail after 24 hours. And I wasn't charged with anything at a time because they needed more events because I gave a no comment interview. What they did not actually charge me with Compute Air Macy's Act. What they charged me was with criminal conspiracy. You don't have to actually charge them with the crime itself. You can charge them with conspiring to commit that crime. So and that's how much easier I charged to prove because you don't have to prove that they actually did that crime. They just have to prove that they talked about doing that crime or they planned to do that crime, they conspire to do that crime. And they had the evidence of that in the chart in the chat logs. Eventually, there's still those 84 charges to two conspiracy charges. Actually, it was originally four charges. Two of them were fraud charges, which were eventually dropped because obviously there was we weren't doing fraud. There was no financial
Speaker 2
incentive. So where did they come from? A misunderstanding? I think well, it was
Speaker 1
very vague. It was like we hacked into credit card information or something like that. It was like other calls that could be useful fraud, but we didn't actually do any fraud with it. So it was kind of like a very, it was very, it was very vague. So they dropped it. The companies that we were accused of hacking was this company called, I think it was like something like Blackberg Security or something. It was like a US company. They weren't actually hacked by us. They just pretended to be hacked by us and we paid along with it because it was like, it was just like kind of like a childish to them or like a way to get pressed for them. It's okay. I bet you regretted that in the end. Well, I don't think it may have a difference. It's like one of ACPBS. But it was all included in the legal charges.
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