Hi and welcome to Cyber reasons malicious life I'm Ran Levy.

Cyberspace is full of vigilantes. Anonymous became famous for it as did Edward Snowden.

Hackers ransack major corporations on the internet or deface government websites in the name of political ideology,

and whistleblowers uncover the crimes of the powerful.

The Vigilantes don't ever seem to be on of the After all you can't have a vigilante working cyber security for your organization or

vigilantes inside of I don't know the CIA. It doesn't work like that. There are rules and regulations and laws to abide by in the real world.

Except those regulations and those laws can be limiting.

Hackers move fast. They don't care about your rules.

If you want to stop them, sometimes it's too slow or prohibitive to go through the proper channels, to contact

the proper authorities, fill out the necessary paperwork, and so on and so on.

When the prescribed legal thing to do just isn't enough, you end up with someone like Sean Carpenter never conceived of himself as a cyber vigilante, but in the summer of 2003 he found himself at the crossroads.

Down one path was what he knew he was supposed to do,

as citizen under the law and a government employee.

It was what he was ordered to do in no uncertain terms by important people who knew what

they were talking about.

Down the other path was what he felt deep down was the right thing to do, which happened to be the exact opposite

of what he was ordered, what he was expressly wasn't allowed to do.

Maybe you faced this kind of situation before.

It's almost universal to the human experience.

Its head versus heart. Do you take the job that pays well or the one you're passionate about?

Marry the girl your parents chose or the one you love. Do I eat the green beans that's good for me?

Or the French fries I desire deep down in my heart. The difference in Sean Carpenter's story were the stakes at hand.

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