Dr. Crime's Terminal of Doom and Other Tales of Betrayal, Sabotage and Skullduggery
CIO, June, 2002 by Sarah D. Scalet
When John Michael Sullivan moved to Charlotte, N.C., to help develop a mobile computer program for Lance Inc., he hung up an old plaque. Inscribed "Dr. Crime's Terminal of Doom," the memento celebrated Sullivan's youthful love of the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom—and his reputation as a computer hacker who went by the handle Dr. Crime.
"I was a hacker long before being a hacker was cool," Sullivan wrote on a webpage the FBI later found on his hard drive, describing his affection for the plaque. "More than once I was accused (falsely?) of perpetrating acts of computer crime against various systems and agencies. But regardless if I did or didn't, I never got caught.... And although I have 'settled in' to a real job, Dr. Crime still lives...quietly, anonymously...
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