He tried for a while, even becoming a “white hat” cyber-security consultant, but something about the black-market world of online thievery always called him back. Alas, that’s something Butler found harder to do than cracking computer codes. All he had to do was play it straight and use his incredible programming prowess for good instead of evil. An incredibly gifted computer geek, he caught the gathering cyber wave-and could have ridden it all the way to untold riches. How he got there and how the authorities finally managed to topple him is a harrowing tale shot through with technology and tragedy.īutler was a just another American outcast working in Boise, Idaho in the late 1980s when the Internet began to take off. Max “Vision” Butler-currently in a federal penitentiary-once sat atop a billion-dollar criminal empire trafficking in stolen credit-card numbers.
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