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Creative Methods Of Capture (Using A Helicopter To Win A Game Of Hide and
Seek In Your Back Yard)

When I use the word "capture", I'm not necessarily talking about "arrest".
In my case, "capturing" a hacker means identifying them for use in our
coverage of any given hack (something that I think we have a good track
record of being able to do).

With hackers wanting their "alter-ego" to become famous, they try to
protect their "true identity" at all cost. They come up with creative ways
to hide themselves (which often means finding ways to exploit flaws in
current systems and protocols). So, the hacker profiler must always be on
the look out for new ways of establishing a true identity.

While law enforcement will often resort to extravagant methods of digital
and line tapping, which can be very time consuming and expensive (and at
times, require the cooperation of many different organizations, and
individuals, as well as an act of congress), the hacker profiler would
require little more than a good understanding of the behavior of the people
that they're looking into.

This is one area where I really don't want to "spill the beans" so to
speak. Coming up with these "common sense" methods can often be time
consuming, and once they're known to the general "underground population",
they become useless.

In the next chapter I'll go into one of these "creative methods of
capture". I think it's one method which best illustrates what I mean when I
tell you how knowing the subject's behavior, can invaluable.

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