The Washington Post has a story and interview with a 21-year old botmaster.
Here is a small quote from the five page story:
“Most days, I just sit at home and chat online while I make money,” 0x80 says. “I get one check like every 15 days in the mail for a few hundred bucks, and a buncha others I get from banks in Canada every 30 days.” He says his work earns him an average of $6,800 per month, although he’s made as much as $10,000. Not bad money for a high school dropout.
The story goes in very deep and the interviewer reports detailed how and why he does this.
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Just get the jpeg showing the laptop keyboard. It’s full of meta tags. And most interesting:
SLUG: mag/hacker
DATE: 12/19/2005
PHOTOGRAPHER: Sarah L. Voisin/TWP
id#: LOCATION: Roland, OK
CAPTION:
PICTURED: Canon Canon EOS 20D
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Macintosh 2006:02:16 15:44:49 Sarah L. Voisin
And Google for the town; pop 3000. Any flatfoot could find him in an hour.