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Malicious Life

Albert Gonzales, Part 1

Malicious Life

Malicious Life

Technology

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Albert Gonzales, Part 1



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0:00.0

Welcome to Sabir reasons malicious life, I'm Ren Levy. Have you ever been obsessed?

0:18.0

I'm not talking about being really into something, not

0:22.0

oh, I'm gee, I'm obsessed with K-pop.

0:25.0

I mean, really obsessed.

0:28.0

Something that took over your life.

0:30.0

You couldn't stop thinking about it, it had control over you.

0:35.8

It was as a teenager that Albert Gonzalez, one of the few greatest cyber criminals in history, developed the obsession that would go on to ruin his life.

0:47.0

But before all that, he was just an ordinary kid. Really, his dad was the interesting one in the family.

0:59.5

In the early 70s, Alberto Gonzalez Sr. built a handmade raft with two friends and used it to try and

1:07.4

cross the Caribbean. He was two days on the water when an American submarine spotted him in the Florida Strait and the Coast

1:15.6

Card cutter came to the rescue.

1:18.8

It was a classic immigrant story, coming over with nothing, having to work from the bottom.

1:24.8

He moved to Miami, started a landscaping company, and married a fellow Cuban Maria in 1977. Alberto and Maria in neighborhood south of downtown Miami.

1:43.2

Their house was small but pretty,

1:46.2

with palm trees, flowers, a Spanish-tiled roof,

1:50.1

and a driveway out front that awkwardly overlaps with what looks like a half finished sidewalk.

1:57.0

Like many other Cuban emigress, there were politically conservative church-going people.

2:04.0

And their son, Albert Jr, was a fine kid, closed with his parents and his sister, outgoing

2:10.6

with friends, helpful with his father's landscaping company.

2:15.0

He was handsome, tan, skinny, with black hair cut short.

2:20.0

His grades were good.

2:22.0

And then... When he was was 12 he bought his first computer.

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