[Aurornis]

I watched the downfall and eventual jailing of someone who had a great job, career, and family after he started getting involved in cybercrime.

As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.

He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect. I think he believed his intellectual superiority combined with the stupidity of others so much that eventually he couldn’t imagine anyone catching him.

[kspacewalk2]

>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.

I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.

[kirubakaran]

Let's not generalize, even if you feel like you can say that because you're a member of a group you're generalizing. It's unfair to most of the people in any group being generalized.

[gessha]

Generalization is a tool, not something inherently bad or evil.

[kspacewalk2]

Re-read my comment as it is written and note that my observation does not generalize.

[coldtea]

Generalizing doesn't mean everybody or even most in the group. It means it's a common behavior in the group relative to other groups.

[Rp8yXmdmr]

> he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others [...] He got caught through a mistake that was really dumb in retrospect.

It seems to be common occurrence. I still can't get over that one hacker who dumped stolen data on forum, to sell it/prove his capabilities, in form of tar.gz archive, that accidentally included his entire home directory

[pbgcp2026]

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[KellyCriterion]

sounds like Markus Braun & Jan Marsalek / Wirecard, the fraudsters :-D

[cm2012]

Sounds like Breaking Bad