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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