For Guccifer, Hacking Was Easy. Prison Is Hard.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/europe/for-guccifer-hacking-was-easy-prison-is-hard-.html

By ANDREW HIGGINS
The New York Times
NOV. 10, 2014

ARAD, Romania — He reveled in tormenting members of the Bush family, Colin 
L. Powell and a host of other prominent Americans, and also in outfoxing 
the F.B.I. and the Secret Service, foiling their efforts to discover even 
his nationality, never mind his identity. Early this year, however, the 
elusive online outlaw known as Guccifer lost his cocky composure and began 
to panic.

He smashed his hard drive and cellphone with an ax.

That spasm of precautionary destruction, at his home in Romania’s rural 
Transylvania region, did not help him much — especially as he left pieces 
of what would later become evidence scattered in the mud.

Two weeks later, on Jan. 22, a global hunt for the celebrated and 
mysterious hacker who first revealed self-portraits painted by George W. 
Bush and plundered a trove of personal emails from politicians, military 
officers and celebrities finally ended in an early morning raid of his 
home.

“I was expecting them, but the shock was still very big for me,” the 
hacker, now serving a seven-year sentence, said. He spoke in an interview, 
his first, at the Arad Penitentiary here. “It is hard to be a hacker, but 
even harder to erase your tracks.”

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