Chapter 7 dis-card

by Mark Burnett

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Temor is a good buddy, and I can trust him. He isn’t really a hacker; he is a businessman. Our method is pretty straightforward: He finds the sites, and I break in, grab the credit card database, and place it on a drop site. He sells the database, and we both make money.

As for me, I’m a hacker. But you’ll never read about me defacing the Navy’s Web site or taking down CNN. Usually, my targets never know I’ve been inside. My pseudonym, dis-card, won’t ever be plastered across a hacked home page, and you’ll rarely find me hanging out in a public chat room. I really don’t exist; therefore, no one has any reason ...

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