His stoic resistance wins Poulsen's admiration - and creates a powerful cinematic narrative line.
At the height of an investigation, Butler refuses to wear a wire and collect decisive evidence against a cohort. When Butler is caught in petty break-ins of secret computer networks, the FBI turns him into an informant - sort of. In Poulsen, Butler finds a worthy Boswell. When Butler moves to San Francisco and sets out to dominate the global traffic in purloined credit-card information, a marriage between Butler and Poulsen seems heaven sent. Kevin Poulsen is a San Francisco editor for Wired magazine who specializes in computer security. Max Butler is a brainy if anti-social kid from Idaho with a penchant for crime sprees and a gift for breaking in to sophisticated computer networks. Hello, Hollywood, Kevin Poulsen has a tale for you. Since "The Social Network," about Facebook, hit big last year, movie producers have been scrambling to option scripts and stories about geeky young nerds trying to plunder the world through the power of the Web. How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground By Kevin Poulsen (Crown 266 pages $25)
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