Wouldn't the best way to do this to be find a way to get friendly with the State's board of Probation & Parole? .. survey the folks that got caught so they can tell you about it.
Folks that haven't gotten caught are obviously not all that bright if they chat it up about their misdeeds. That said .. I've had some interesting discussions with the botnet kiddies by reverse-engineering their malware and lurking in the appropriate IRC channel (just do it from a separate dialup connection, lest you get DDOS'ed). Usually the "why" question is answered with a variation of "because I could.." or "boredom" or both. Cheers, Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA Cleveland State University PS: I hate to be the one to point this out, but nothing will protect your "confidential" research from a subpoena. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/