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S1 Ep14: I Hacked The US Government Aged 16

Extraordinary Lives

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The Moral Obligation to Hack

Losec, unlike Anonymous, was a private group. It wasn't like something that anyone can claim to be. One of the major hacks we did was a US military contractor called H.B. Gary Federal. We leaked 70,000 emails from them because they were threatening to expose in their own words the leaders of Anonymous. The CEO used the same password for his PayPal account as he did for his World of Warcraft account. So that allowed us to gain access to all of his accounts.

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