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CYBERWAR!

would never cause damage to someone's computer system.

If I didn't hit these, someone else would have, and they would have been dirty. These kids leave warez and IRC BS laying everywhere, and /bin/rm systems when they are unhappy. Lame.

You might not appreciate what I was doing, but it was for the greater good. I am abandoning all hosts on that list that you captured. . . . I am not touching those systems since I know you turned them over to CERT. CERT should hire people with my skill. Of course, if paid I would never leave rootkits or such.

Pretty clever though? Heh. It was a blast. Owning hundreds, nay thousands of systems, and knowing that you were FIXING them on the way . . . .

Uhm, I'm not ever doing this sort of shit again. You have my tools now. That pisses me off . . . .

Hrm. Anyway I just don't want this to happen again, so I'm going to let it lie . . . .

"The Cracker"

With that, Max shut down his five-day attack on the government, with more cracked systems behind him than he could count. He was satisfied that he'd made the Internet safer than it was before; thousands of computers that had been vulnerable to every hacker in the world were now vulnerable to only one: Max Vision.