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How a High-School Dropout Hacked a Million Devices

‘I DECIDED TO INFECT THEM ALL’

Teenager behind notorious Satori botnet was an Xbox player who joined an online community that got their kicks from exploiting vulnerabilities in the so-called Internet of Things.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

The unemployed high-school dropout who hacked nearly one million Internet routers, DVRs, and video cameras didn’t look particularly formidable in his pajamas.

Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 21, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to aiding and abetting computer intrusion in a federal court in Anchorage, Alaska, admitted that he co-created the Satori

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