Russian hackers forced into trade by poor economy
Height: unknown. Weight: unknown. M.O.: has ability to move invisibly over great distances, speak multiple languages and destroy the civilized world as we know it.
Vasyl Kondrashov matches the FBI's definition of the 21st century's Public Enemy No. 1 -- except for one thing. This 28-year-old who feeds his wife and toddler by teaching people how to break into other people's computers doesn't think what he does for a living is a crime.
"Hacking isn't necessarily a crime, just like a knife isn't necessarily dangerous. It all depends on the person behind it," said Kondrashov, who heads what he calls a civilian hackers' school in Odessa, Ukraine.
"I see my task as giving knowledge as well as the responsibility to use it for good and not evil," he said.
