Society's Child
But the outrageous storyline was thought credible by many in the world of computer security.
Among those was the New Zealand-born computer hacker Barnaby Jack.
The 35-year-old - who, unlike many in the business, used his skills 'ethically' - had spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers' failure to install proper safety devices on equipment.

Mr Jack spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers¿ failure to install proper safety devices on equipment
He also believed it was possible to infect the pacemaker companies' servers with a bug that would spread through their systems like a virus.
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Wolcott admitted to the crimes, saying that he hated his mother because she chewed food loudly and his sister because she had a bad accent.
Doctors diagnosed Wolcott with paranoid schizophrenia made worse by his addiction to airplane glue.
Six years later, Wolcott was released from mental hospital after being declared sane.
Changed his name to James St James in 1976 and went on to earn Master's degree and PhD.
A beloved 61-year-old psychology professor has been outed as a killer who murdered his family as a teenager and was committed to a mental hospital for only six years after being found insane.
The bespectacled, mustachioed chairman of Millikin University's department of behavior sciences in Illinois has been identified by a reporter from the Texas newspaper The Georgetown Advocate as James Wolcott, who murdered his parents and older sister in cold blood when he was 15 years old.
The witness, who wished to remain unidentified, was standing in the parking lot of the Harbor Place Shopping Center in Santa Ana around 3 p.m. Tuesday when he filmed the confrontation in front of Jugo's La Tropicana, a juice shop, between an officer and victim Hans Kevin Arellano.
'She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the gentlemen to get on the ground. The gentlemen didn't get on the ground, he was still inside the restaurant,' the witness told KCAL9.com. 'She asked again. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, "What are you gonna do, b****?" About a second later, she shot him in the chest.'
The victim, Hans Kevin Arellano, can be seen in the grainy video falling to his knees shortly after the bang of a loud gunshot.
The officer, a female who was later identified as a 13-year-veteran, was called to the scene as back-up after reports of criminal activity at the Jugo's La Tropicana.
Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas said that Arellano was a convicted burglar and that he was 'combative.'
We began by following an oxcart-rutted dirt track for as far as it would go in Punjab province. Then we walk another kilometre or so through humid maize and sugarcane plantations to reach the farmhouse.
The brothers are not there, their uncle, Wali Deen, tells me. He is also not happy to see me.
"Interview the corpse-eaters? They didn't eat corpses. They are just the victims of their neighbours' jealousy," he says defiantly.
Mohammad Farman Ali and Mohammad Arif Ali were sentenced to two years in jail for stealing a corpse from a grave and using it to make meat curry.
Because they killed no one and there is no law relating to cannibalism in Pakistan, the pair only served about two years in jail for desecrating a grave following their arrest in April 2011.
The overwhelming evidence of cannibalism created a serious law and order situation in the area around the small desert town of Darya Khan, located along the western fringes of Punjab, some 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Islamabad.
In June, people of the town were stunned when the brothers were released from jail. Angry protesters set tyres on fire on a major highway in the area, blocking traffic for several hours.
The police had to take the brothers into protective custody to prevent them from being lynched. Their whereabouts since their release have been largely unknown.
Footage from a dashboard camera of a driver in the US state of Indiana captures the incredible moment an articulated lorry is launched into the air, flies over a two lane highway before exploding in a fireball.
The incredulous reaction of the driver who witnessed the incident can be heard on the footage, which is believed to have been filmed on Thursday afternoon.
A local newspaper, The Greensburg Daily News, reported that the lorry driver and his seven-year-old son, who was travelling with him at the time of the accident, escaped the incident with only minor injuries.
Though much has already been said of the tar sands oil industry, which is currently experiencing a boom and has spurred several high profile pipeline expansions across the US, the accumulation of the petroleum coke, commonly referred to as pet coke, along the Detroit riverfront went largely unnoticed until this week.









