The year was 2008, and I had been staying at a hotel in Bogota. This trip was just one of many to Columbia that year. Before my trip, I’d had my former girlfriend, Darci, stop by and help me swap out the hard drive in my MacBook Pro laptop. Remember, this is 2008, and at the time, replacing a drive in a MacBook Pro wasn’t nearly as easy as replacing hard drives these days. Darci swapped out my original hard drive with a brand-new drive, which I then formatted and installed macOS.  I had her swap the drive out for security reasons. I didn’t want to cross the border into a foreign country with all of my client data. Especially not after what happened to me in Atlanta! But we’ll get to that later.

Yet again, we are back from a couple of conferences organized specially for heavy computer users like us. We are particularly happy that our company was again warmly welcomed by the overseas hacking community – thank you for accepting and visiting our talk – and that FBI didn’t bother us too much during our stay, though they didn’t miss a chance to scare the crap out of Andrey and Vladimir right before their departure back to Moscow.  Apart from that little episode with three-letter guys everything went smoothly.