Cosmo is a 15 - yr - sometime son who just experience the hacker eq of a end sentence . All of his electronics : gone . The cyberspace : off - limits until he ’s 21 . He ’s whole vanished from the populace he call home .
I met Cosmo the God ( hacker alias , of course , to go along with with the phony visibility picture up top ) by mistake . When Twitter went down over the summer , rumors quickly erupted that it ’d been taken down — and a grouping of young vane felon who went by “ UGNazi ” claimed province . The cyber-terrorist group had seen its share of balmy on-line destruction in the past : defeat the CIA ’s website last spring , once hijacking all of 4chan . They were players .
It ’s doubtful they wrestled down Twitter — it was probably just a bug . Most other hackers I spoke with doubted UGNazi had the DDoS power to derail such a massive on-line service ; Cosmo ’s claims were just opportunism , they tell .
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-was-taken-down-yesterday-by-a-cascading-bug-5920455
Cosmo , for his part , remained adamant that the Twitter hack had been his group ’s doing , and we stick in touch even after the history had fumble over . Unlike his peers at Anonymous , Cosmo rarely masked the fact that he ’s just a screwed up youngster . The work-shy effort to shock with a Hitler - themed hacker home page , the occasionally offensive , arbitrarily bigoted tweets — the on-line attacks that did n’t seem to succeed any lucid agenda . Cosmo hack on like other high school Thomas Kyd spray paint walls or dress off pot turkey . Sabuwanted the terrorized respect of the entire net — Cosmo just want to piss citizenry off and scare adults . Always friendly , good at what he does , but essentially just a punk , and very much a child .
https://gizmodo.com/who-is-sabu-updated-5890964
But he still trust grownup crimes . And so it was n’t retentive until Cosmo was nab , pick up in a course credit menu sham dragnet this summertime . His crowd ’s website wasseized by the FBI . He was pull out of school . royal court date supercede class . His laptop was snatch up by the police . But he always managed to creep online somehow and respond to my subject matter — he reached AIM through an iPod he concealed from the cop , and sent me emails from a out of sight Kindle . When he could n’t get to me himself , someone else — a “ friend”—spoke on his behalf . He always encounter a room online .
Then came the sentencing , and for a adolescent whose life is the Internet , it was about as coarse as you could imagine : a probation period that bans Cosmo from using the Internet or any of his gadgets for the next six years . The news was fleet , and I knew he ’d be conk out presently .
https://gizmodo.com/infamous-15-year-old-hacker-banned-from-internet-for-si-5959360
I took to Twitter , where we ’d first talked , and asked him if he was still out there .
November 14th , 11:09 necropsy
11:30 PM
11:42 PM
at last , Cosmo require if we could move the conversation to Skype the next day — after he ’d evidence me he ’d deleted all of his IM history . He also asked me not to utter to Virus — a hacking challenger of his — still stuck in his secret plan in the few hours he had leave to even be aware of it .
[ 6:13:15 post-mortem examination ] Cosmo : hey
[ 6:13:45 postmortem examination ] sambiddle : do you have any clearer picture of when you ’ll have to give up this laptop ?
[ 6:14:33 post-mortem examination ] Cosmo : this workweek
[ 6:14:38 PM ] Cosmo : anyday now
[ 6:14:48 postmortem examination ] sambiddle : they have n’t told you when ?
[ 6:15:01 PM ] Cosmo : they say they will have a probation military officer come out within a workweek
[ 6:15:09 phase modulation ] Cosmo : or something like that
[ 6:15:11 autopsy ] sambiddle : how are affair at home plate ?
[ 6:16:15 PM ] Cosmo : full
[ 6:16:24 PM ] Cosmo : cbs intelligence record up at my house the other twenty-four hours
[ 6:16:28 PM ] Cosmo : lol
[ 6:16:28 promethium ] sambiddle : how was that ?
[ 6:16:34 PM ] Cosmo : asking for a interview
[ 6:16:37 PM ] Cosmo : said no
[ 6:16:42 PM ] sambiddle : in all likelihood impudent
[ 6:16:46 post-mortem ] Cosmo : yeah
[ 6:17:03 PM ] sambiddle : are you back at school ?
[ 6:19:37 post-mortem ] Cosmo : yea
[ 6:21:02 PM ] sambiddle : how is that so far ? do other hoi polloi lecture about what you ’ve been going through ?
[ 6:21:13 necropsy ] Cosmo : no one knows about hte hack poppycock
That was the last affair I ever see from Cosmo .
Now he ’s tossed out into our real world , surrounded by kid he does n’t know very well , who have no theme that he ’s on sound probation for , and who see only a tall , hoarse high schooler . They ’ll hump nothing of his past , his problems , his malicious streak , his curious penchant , his ingeniousness , his teen nihilistic delusion . What they ’ll determine will be hallway gossip . They wo n’t know Cosmo , because Cosmo exists on the net .
But the very young homo behind the keyboard is out there , under constabulary supervision , living with a coarse probation he ’ll probably be tempted to despoil every individual daylight . And there ’s peck of reason to opine he ’ll reverting — he’d already flout the rules to talk to me . I asked Virus :
11:36:15 AM Sam Biddle : you think he ’s gon na make it six class ?
11:36:43 AM Virus : definitely not
11:37:04 AM Virus : just the other daytime he tried steal a friends paypal account
11:37:11 AM Virus : he wo n’t make it ~6 twelvemonth
The kid just ca n’t help himself .
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