Have you ever wanted to become a billionaire without leaving home or breaking a sweat? In the book Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over The Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground, written by Kevin Poulsen, the story revolves around this plan to become extremely rich without leaving your home. The main character, Max Butler, sat for hours on end in his hideout and secretly stole important credentials from servers he hacked into from his personal computer. As Max Butler continued to climb to the top of the world of cybercrime, he could feel the heat of the Secret Service and the FBI closing in from behind. This story begins when Max Butler was a high school student in a small town called Meridian, located in the heart of Idaho. He didn't fit into the town's cowboy culture as he was very computer literate. He was the protector of his group of friends because he was six feet five inches tall. Max had a habit of getting into trouble during his high school days in Boise, so when his friends found a master key to the school, they decided not to tell him because they feared what he might do with it. He had already had a run-in with the law for phone phreaking while scanning long-distance codes. When he finally recognized the school key on his friend's key ring, the two broke into the high school where they ransacked the interior. Max also found the storage room of chemicals and put them in his car where later that night he lit a fire in one of his friends' yard. The next day, during the police interrogation, one of his friends told him everything and Max was sentenced as a juvenile and received a psychiatric evaluation and probation. Despite his criminal tendencies, during high school, he met a girl named Amy with whom he fell in love because they both had a passion for