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Very nice article. Very well written too. Another poster suggested that you right a book. Sounds like a good suggestion to me, I would buy a copy.

The funny thing is about all these “hacker” stories (of course, we are taking this guy at his word. Anyone with a basic copy of PS can make the screenies, and the letter as well. I think the mistakes in the letter are an accident..but not on the side of the “lawyers”) is that guys like that claim to basically do a few things:

1) Sit in front of a PC screen for hours and hours and hours (at that age I was hunting tail)

2) Stealing the equivalent of a few thousand dollars, MAYBE.

You know what? That’s a job. I know people that sit in front of a PC screen all day (designers, artists, musicians) and make 300k a year, AND they have health insurance.
So basically this guy played “Job” and got “fired.”
Not impressive, but interesting for sure.
Now, let’s hope that this guy (IF his story is true, which of course he cannot prove, but neither can I prove that he’s NOT true) puts as much energy into school, so maybe one day he’ll make something that will make a difference.
You know, solve world peace or something. But I doubt it. This might his BEST STORY EVER.

Yes, I know.

That was an attempt at humor, being that I knew that bilking an online browser based video game for (allegedly) 10,000 dollars is a far far cry from doing anything useful or memorable.

Hell, if he woulda’ put all those hours into let’s say, a heist plan…not even a large one, just some minor music store…
…no, no, I got it:

He coulda’ got a job at Guitar Center let’s say…and while he was squirreling away his 12 bucks an hour (being that he was living with mom and dad’s paychecks paying for his roof and his tummy) he could have planned the theft of ONE limited edition Amplifier, worth upwards of 15,000 dollars. Trust me, they can easily reach that much.
With all those hours and hours of planning, he could have nabbed it and possibly gotten away with it.
Instead, he blew the 10k he got for all those hours and hours of work on some soda pop and maybe a new PC. Lord knows10k does NOT go very far.
But that one amp coulda’ netted him at least the 10k, for a few hours work. The whole time he planned the “heist” he was also making money at Guitar Center, and had saved up 4 or 5k over the summer, all the while building a (sometimes very profitable) career.

Let’s skip all this.

He goes to the local college and nabs some financial aid. Over the summer he receives well over 10k, and goes to a campus filled with girls, then skips out, leaving his parents (once again) to foot the bill.

I think he has clearly stated that his reasons were not to make money. He love what he was doing, it was fun, and it was his youth… why not?

You can take him at his word that he did do this, and I wouldn’t look at it as a “bad business decision” as I doubt that crossed his mind. Not to say he wasn’t interested in the money – of course he was, but really I don’t think that is what he was getting at in this article.

Anyhow, that is what I picked up from the article, and I know Third EyeBlind pretty well and from other discussions with him I think that he would agree with what I’m saying.

Well, there are plenty of things that can bee seen as fun, and things that are done in our youth..but that are still in-excusable.
Let’s look at it this way: according to him, if he is telling the truth, he took 10,00 dollars (helped take 50,000) that was not his.
He stole the money.
So, if he had taken this money from a little old lady, would it be different? Our sympathy is with the little old lady, so of course we would say that is wrong.
Of course, many would say that since the game company is a massive entity, that stealing from them is not the same as stealing from the little old lady.
Now, what if you had 10,000 dollars in your bank account, and he stole it from you? Would you be apt to say “It was just youthful fun.”?
No, you would want to throttle him.

Again we come back to the fact that he stole from a large corporation, so that somehow makes it a little bit more “ok.”
Well, I am saying it does not.
Just like in that scene in Pulp Fiction, where Jules is explaining that he is going to just “walk the earth, like Cain from Kung Fu.” Then his partner explains to him that they have a word for that, and that word is “BUM.”
A thief is a thief. There is no honor among thieves and there is no excusing spending an entire summer (possibly more?) stealing from a company and encouraging children to steal from their parents (in the form of “I’ll go into mom’s purse and get her credit card.”)

He doesn’t say whether he sent the money back, because more than likely he blew the measly 10k on some pot, or some entertainment.

My point is, this is basically the same as some kid writing a blog because he had a successful paper route for a summer, made some money, and got caught cheating the paper company, but pulled out before he got into trouble.
The difference is, that kid with the paper route is actually doing something that takes WORK ETHIC and character.

Of course, we all learn from our youthful mistakes. I would hope that at the ripe old age of 17 he is a reformed character. I don’t know.

I don’t know him.