Chapter 1 Hide and Sneak

by Ido Dubrawsky

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If you want to hack into someone else’s network, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is the best time. I love that time of year. No one is around, and most places are running on a skeleton crew at best. If you’re good, and you do it right, you won’t be noticed even by the automated systems. And that was a perfect time of year to hit these guys with their nice e-commerce site—plenty of credit card numbers, I figured.

The people who ran this site had ticked me off. I bought some computer hardware from them, and they took forever to ship it to me. On top of that, when the stuff finally arrived, ...

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