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S1 Ep14: I Hacked The US Government Aged 16

Extraordinary Lives

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How to Quit Hacking Before Your Arrest

A few weeks before I was arrested, there's another guy in the UK that was arrested. He wasn't directly a part of our group, but he was associated with us. And so it definitely felt they were onto us to some extent. At one point, we became so popular that we weren't doing any hacks ourselves anymore. It was just other hackers sending us hacks, sending us leaks to publish. We became more like a publishing kind of group, more than a hacking group. Before I was arrested,. I actually decided to quit. Not necessarily because I thought I'd be arrested, but because I wanted to move on with my life, it just became a bit boring to some extent

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