Jeremy Hammond was put in prison for 10 years over high-profile cyber attacks. Photo: Cook County Sheriff's Department <\/p>\n
Cocaine dealers, bank robbers and carjackers converge at Manchester Federal Prison in rural Kentucky in the US and then there is Jeremy Hammond, a tousle-haired and talented hacker whose nimble fingers have clicked and tapped their way into the world's computing systems. Among those whose data he helped expose: the husband of the federal judge who sentenced him. <\/p>\n
\"From the start, I always wanted to target government websites, but also police and corporations that profit off government contracts,\" he says. \"I hacked lots of dot-govs.\" <\/p>\n
Once the FBI's most-wanted cybercriminal, Hammond is serving one of the longest sentences a US hacker has received 10 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement last year. <\/p>\n
Jeremy Hammond in an earlier photo. <\/p>\n
\"This is the nicest room in the place,\" he said when recently visited by this journalist in a drab cinderblock visiting room to talk about how and why he did what he did. Prison authorities barred cameras and recorders, citing security. <\/p>\n
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A hacktivist for more than a decade, Hammond, 29, was arrested in 2012 after penetrating the US-based security think tank Stratfor, whose clients include the US Department of Homeland Security and the Defence Department. <\/p>\n
He'd been working with a subgroup of the loose-knit hacking movement \"Anonymous\" to disrupt the networks of Sony Pictures, the Public Broadcasting Service, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and others when a member of the group enlisted him to help break into Stratfor's systems. <\/p>\n
Hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur helped law enforcement infiltrate Anonymous and convict eight hackers in all. Photo: AP <\/p>\n
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