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WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET?

of 2005 and made him unofficial site spokesman after the hostile takeover. Max let C0rrupted in on his double identity about a week after his power play.

So obviously I am Digits also. Might as well say it straight since I blew cover in ICQ (talking about "our forum," etc.)

It is a pain in the ass trying to keep that separate from people I know and trust and like such as yourself. So there you go . . .

Anyway, reasoning is, Iceman is legal. Digits is breaking the law. I assumed if I could keep it separate there would be no legal leg to stand on for coming after "me" as the forum admin.

Chris remained the greatest threat to Max's security. Every time they fought now, Max was reminded of how vulnerable he was to the only carder privy to his real-life identity. "I can't believe how much you know about me," he'd spit out, angry at himself.

Meanwhile, Chris had been trying to drive Max into pulling one big score, something that would catapult them both out of the crime business for good and maybe fund a new legitimate start-up for Chris in Orange County. He'd crafted a flowchart and a step-by-step plan for each of them to follow; he called it the "Whiz List."

Max was supposed to infiltrate banking networks and gain the power to direct millions of dollars to accounts specified by Chris. He'd delivered on his end—from the very start of their partnership, back when he was working from Chris's garage, he'd been breaching small banks and savings and loans. He was in hundreds of them now and could transfer money out of customers' accounts at will. But the scheme was hung up on Chris's end. Chris had to find a safe harbor for the money Max would steal—an