Botnet Boy Breaks
Today was a landmark day in the short but checkered career of 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta.
Until he got busted, Ancheta had been a botnet operator. He installed remote-control software on thousands of other people’s computers that enabled him to dole out tasks to those computers. Which he did, trying various approaches to herding all that computing power into an income stream, with various degrees of success. His arrest last year was a major event in the history of hacking.
Young Mr. Ancheta was lured to an FBI office in Los Angeles and captured on Thursday morning, November 3, 2005. (The following Monday, I showed up for my first day working at Microsoft.)
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