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8. An unlucky hacker

There is always a risk for hackers to be caught and arrested for 1. ________ a crime, but many people still want to try their fate. Kevin Poulsen was 2. ________ of hacking into phone lines to win a car. After a disc jockey on the radio had announced that caller number 102 would win a 3. ________ new Porsche, Kevin took control of the phone network and blocked incoming calls. 4. ________ Kevin technically won the car, the police were suspicious and found him. Long story short, the young man served about 5 years in prison and after his 5. ________ became a journalist. After a 6. ________ Kevin 7. ________ a contract with security services, and currently he works as a top consultant on cyber-crime.

9. The mystery of Steve Jobs' Mercedes Benz

According 1. ________ various stories Steve Jobs wasn’t very careful about his money. He was a person who was prepared to 2. ________ a lot for his favorite brands. For example, he was 3. ________ of expensive cars and was always driving a silver Mercedes-Benz. What was the most interesting thing about this car was the fact that it never had a license plate. It is a violation of the law that requires automobiles to have front and rear license plates. Many people were 4. ________ in how he managed to avoid 5. ________ punished for this. The truth is he found 6. ________ a loophole in the California law which allows people to drive a 7. ________ new car for six months without plates. Jobs made an arrangement with the company and exchanged one silver Mercedes for 8. ________ identical one every six months.