马库斯·哈钦斯（Marcus Hutchins）在22岁时就因单枪匹马阻止万纳克里（WannaCry）的传播而声名鹊起，万纳克里是一种勒索软件攻击，袭击了全球数十万台电脑，并有效地关闭了英国十几家医院。但在阻止之后的几个月内，哈钦斯就被警方拘留了。他那非凡的故事是《连线》一部长篇新片的主题，完全值得一读。

哈钦斯被捕是因为他十几岁时就在开发代码，这些代码最终会被用于银行木马软件。但时间过得太久了，当他最终被警察审问时，他起初以为他们只是想了解他在万纳克里的工作。

For the next few minutes, the agents struck a friendly tone, asking Hutchins about his education and Kryptos Logic, the security firm where he worked. For those minutes, Hutchins allowed himself to believe that perhaps the agents wanted only to learn more about his work on WannaCry, that this was just a particularly aggressive way to get his cooperation into their investigation of that world-shaking cyberattack. Then, 11 minutes into the interview, his interrogators asked him about a program called Kronos.

“Kronos,” Hutchins said. “I know that name.” And it began to dawn on him, with a sort of numbness, that he was not going home after all.

哈钦斯从来没有打算以**银行恶意软件告终，但在各种黑客论坛上度过了数年后，他发现自己正试图与正在社交的黑客竞争。他很有天赋，几乎是出于无聊才开始研究和**恶意软件。然后，他开始为其他论坛成员做自由职业者的工作，一切都升级了。

Hutchins began to develop a reputation as a talented malware ghostwriter. Then, when he was 16, he was approached by a more serious client, a figure that the teenager would come to know by the pseudonym Vinny.

虽然哈钦斯坚持认为，你可以成为一个良好的网络安全研究员没有犯罪的过去，这是有趣的，看看有多少他的技能似乎是从编写恶意软件放在首位。这是一个引人入胜的故事，你可以也应该在Wired上读一遍。