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Matthew Cox was the world's greatest real estate fraudster - unti the bubble burst. With the law on his tail, no matter how much plastic surgery he had to hide his identity, he couldn't escape his own face in the mirror.
Matthew Cox always wanted to make his father proud, but he didn’t think it would land him on the top of the Secret Service’s most wanted list. His scam was real estate
America's most badass hackers are going to war for the government.
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When Samantha Koenig disappeared from this coffee shop in Alaska, authorities didn’t know that they were after the most notorious serial killer in a generation.
Photographed by Brian Adams | Licensed to Alpha Media Group 2013 Pictured: Common Grounds Espresso Stand in Anchorage, Alaska “He was the same dirty rat he’d always been. He got what he
Online vigilante Deric Lostutter helped expose the cover-up in the Steubenville rape case. Now he's facing more jail time than the convicted rapists.
On November 25th, the most notorious rape case in recent memory took yet another shocking twist. In Steubenville, Ohio, where a 16-year-old girl was raped by two high school football players in
How a teenage misfit became the keep of Julian Assange's darkest secrets - only to betray him.
On a recent frigid night near Reykjavik, Iceland, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson slips into a bubbling geothermal pool at a suburban swim club. The cherubic, blond 21-year-old, who has been called everything in
It was the eBay of vice, an online hub of guns, drugs and crime. But its alleged founder soon learned that you can't rule the underworld without spilling some blood.
On October 1st, 2013, inside the science-fiction section of the Glen Park library in San Francisco, one of the Internet’s most-wanted men sat typing quietly on his laptop. He’d allegedly assumed multiple
How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird - and why did he walk away?
Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile
They were Vine's first superstars, falling in love online, and making lots of money from it. But once they met in the real world, things went horribly wrong.
There’s a lot Jessi Smiles can do in a six-second video. Pound Pringles. Pretend she peed her pants. Twerk on a geek at a video-game store. She can also put every guy
Supporters of Internet freedom rallied around weev before he went to prison. But now that the hacker is out, he’s douchier—and maybe scarier—than ever
“Want a bump?” It’s not that surprising when Andrew “weev” Auernheimer offers me coke shortly after we first meet. As one of the Net’s most notorious trolls, the scruffily elfin 28-year-old is
How Anonymous incited online vigilantism from Tunisia to Ferguson.
In the mid-nineteen-seventies, when Christopher Doyon was a child in rural Maine, he spent hours chatting with strangers on CB radio. His handle was Big Red, for his hair. Transmitters lined the
