Cosmo the God, a hacking wunderkind brought down to earth
Cosmo is huge -- 2 metres tall and 91 kilograms the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on 26 June. And yet he's getting bigger, because Cosmo -- also known as Cosmo the God, the social-engineering mastermind who weaselled his way past security systems at Amazon, Apple, AT&T, PayPal, AOL, Netflix, Network Solutions, and Microsoft-- is just 15 years old.
He turns 16 next March, and he may very well do so inside a prison cell.
Cosmo was arrested in the US along with dozens of others in a recent multi-state FBI sting targeting credit card fraud. He will soon be appearing in court, but he doesn't know which task force is investigating him or the name of his public defender. He doesn't even know what he's been charged with. It's tough to narrow it down; he freely admits to participation in a wide array of crimes.
