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The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday May 14 2020, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the crime-doesn't-pay dept.

Freeman writes:

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (archive)

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

[...] For the next few minutes, the agents struck a friendly tone, asking Hutchins about his education and Kryptos Logic, the security firm where he worked. For those minutes, Hutchins allowed himself to believe that perhaps the agents wanted only to learn more about his work on WannaCry, that this was just a particularly aggressive way to get his cooperation into their investigation of that world-shaking cyberattack. Then, 11 minutes into the interview, his interrogators asked him about a program called Kronos.

"Kronos," Hutchins said. "I know that name." And it began to dawn on him, with a sort of numbness, that he was not going home after all.

[...] Despite his sentence of time served, his legal case forced him to overstay his visa, and he's soon likely to be deported back to England. As we walk into Santa Monica, past rows of expensive beach homes, he says his goal is to eventually get back here to LA, which now feels more like home than Devon. "Someday I'd like to be able to live in a house by the ocean like this," he says, "Where I can look out the window and if the waves are good, go right out and surf."

A long, but interesting read.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Arik on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:09PM (2 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:09PM (#994417) Journal
    Wow, you're not just able to read minds, but you can read the minds of everyone with a particular name, all at once?
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:46PM (#994426)

    GP has been assimilated into the Mohammed hive-mind! He's one of them! Aaaa!

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday May 17 2020, @12:08PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday May 17 2020, @12:08PM (#995315) Journal

    Not the most interesting discussion in the universe, but I can make pretty solid assumptions about german people who have been named Adolf in the past decades, so why shouldn't it work for Mohameds.

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