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Source: BBC News - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Andrei is a young man with immense power at his fingertips. He's a reformed Russian hacker.
Back hunched, eyes fixed on the computer screen in front of him, he demonstrates what he can do.
"Look, here's the log-in and the password," he says, pulling up a Georgian government website.
"This site has already been hacked, I'm just demonstrating the vulnerability. But it's easy if you know how."
At just 20 years old, Andrei works for an information security firm. He says he does nothing illegal now, but he used to.
"I started when I was 14. I hacked a series of military resources, the US army, some Russian departments. I wanted to examine how well protected they were."
Andrei sees nothing wrong with what he did, as he made no money from it. Hacking for him is all about the technical challenge and the thrill.
Read this full article at BBC News
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