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Description:During the investigation of “the largest and the most complex identity theft in the U.S. history” a Belarusian Sergey Pavlovich first came to the attention of the investigation. He was later found guilty to the sale of the stolen credit and debit card numbers for fraudulent use. In 2008 a group of 11 people from different countries were charged with numerous crimes, connected with hacking of a number of retailers and stealing data of 200 million credit cards. The brain of the operations was Albert Gonzalez, who doubled as American intelligence agencies’ informer. According to the American authorities, the losses caused by “11 friends of Gonzalez” exceeded a billion US dollars. The book is based on real events and is written during its author’s 10-year prison sentence. I wrote this book in prison, much of it on a banned mobile phone. It was my survival strategy: I kept working on the book, asking for an early parole and doing everything to make sure my pleas reached the ears of those who mattered. Writing helped me stay sane, distance myself from day-to-day worries and forget the bastards with whom I was surrounded. My wife at the time believed this book was written for her. My mother thought I’d put my story on paper because I had to keep myself busy. My best friend says I am crazy to be sharing that kind of information. He thinks even jail can’t satiate my hunger for fame. And they’re all right in their different ways. It was first published in Russian in 2013, while I was still behind bars. Before I came to the attention of the Belarusian police and the FBI, my online friends knew me as PoliceDog. For a few years I had more money than I knew what to do with. Aged 20, I was earning $100,000 a month — an unbelievable sum in Belarus in the early 2000s. I also tried my hand at spam, pornography and many other cyber-crime sidelines. Had my friends and I had begun life in a different country and at a different time, many of us could have been bank employees, businessmen or owners of companies. Some, of course, would still have become criminals. But we were born in the Soviet Union at the turn of an epoch and we became adults in the 1990s when old moral values had been rejected and new ones hadn't yet appeared. We became cyber-criminals not because we were naturals, but because of the times: our parents were working two or three jobs to make ends meet, and we, the kids, were left on our own. No-one told us stealing was a sin, and even if they did, no one bothered to explain why. But everyone around us was stealing, from civil servants to businessmen: and almost everyone got away with it. Why couldn't we do the same? Who stopped us and showed us what was right? We spent days sitting in front of computers (they appeared first in the families of scientists, engineers, university professors) and we devoted ourselves to the first thing we discovered on the Internet. We numbed our feeling of guilt with the idea we weren't targeting anyone personally, only large companies and governments, that we were a band of merry Robin Hoods. Someone even came up with the term “economic guerillas”: we steal in the West and spend at home. Psychologically it's not hard to convince yourself that you’re not doing anything wrong. Like most, I ended up in prison, where I was lucky to spend only a decade. My beautiful wife left me. My mother aged with grief rather than time. My friends started seeing me as a ghost, someone they had nothing to talk to about. You don’t share joy from your child’s birthday or your summer trip with a ghost — it’s too awkward. In 2015, I was released — aged 31. From the Foreword to the English editionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How to Steal a Million: The Memoirs of a Russian Hacker. To get started finding How to Steal a Million: The Memoirs of a Russian Hacker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: During the investigation of “the largest and the most complex identity theft in the U.S. history” a Belarusian Sergey Pavlovich first came to the attention of the investigation. He was later found guilty to the sale of the stolen credit and debit card numbers for fraudulent use. In 2008 a group of 11 people from different countries were charged with numerous crimes, connected with hacking of a number of retailers and stealing data of 200 million credit cards. The brain of the operations was Albert Gonzalez, who doubled as American intelligence agencies’ informer. According to the American authorities, the losses caused by “11 friends of Gonzalez” exceeded a billion US dollars. The book is based on real events and is written during its author’s 10-year prison sentence. I wrote this book in prison, much of it on a banned mobile phone. It was my survival strategy: I kept working on the book, asking for an early parole and doing everything to make sure my pleas reached the ears of those who mattered. Writing helped me stay sane, distance myself from day-to-day worries and forget the bastards with whom I was surrounded. My wife at the time believed this book was written for her. My mother thought I’d put my story on paper because I had to keep myself busy. My best friend says I am crazy to be sharing that kind of information. He thinks even jail can’t satiate my hunger for fame. And they’re all right in their different ways. It was first published in Russian in 2013, while I was still behind bars. Before I came to the attention of the Belarusian police and the FBI, my online friends knew me as PoliceDog. For a few years I had more money than I knew what to do with. Aged 20, I was earning $100,000 a month — an unbelievable sum in Belarus in the early 2000s. I also tried my hand at spam, pornography and many other cyber-crime sidelines. Had my friends and I had begun life in a different country and at a different time, many of us could have been bank employees, businessmen or owners of companies. Some, of course, would still have become criminals. But we were born in the Soviet Union at the turn of an epoch and we became adults in the 1990s when old moral values had been rejected and new ones hadn't yet appeared. We became cyber-criminals not because we were naturals, but because of the times: our parents were working two or three jobs to make ends meet, and we, the kids, were left on our own. No-one told us stealing was a sin, and even if they did, no one bothered to explain why. But everyone around us was stealing, from civil servants to businessmen: and almost everyone got away with it. Why couldn't we do the same? Who stopped us and showed us what was right? We spent days sitting in front of computers (they appeared first in the families of scientists, engineers, university professors) and we devoted ourselves to the first thing we discovered on the Internet. We numbed our feeling of guilt with the idea we weren't targeting anyone personally, only large companies and governments, that we were a band of merry Robin Hoods. Someone even came up with the term “economic guerillas”: we steal in the West and spend at home. Psychologically it's not hard to convince yourself that you’re not doing anything wrong. Like most, I ended up in prison, where I was lucky to spend only a decade. My beautiful wife left me. My mother aged with grief rather than time. My friends started seeing me as a ghost, someone they had nothing to talk to about. You don’t share joy from your child’s birthday or your summer trip with a ghost — it’s too awkward. In 2015, I was released — aged 31. From the Foreword to the English editionWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How to Steal a Million: The Memoirs of a Russian Hacker. To get started finding How to Steal a Million: The Memoirs of a Russian Hacker, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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