Police are highly impressed with the talent of teenage computer hacker Owen Walker, but worry how he will use his skills in the future.
Yesterday Walker was discharged without conviction in the Hamilton High Court. He had plead guilty to six cyber crime charges.
Under the alias “akill”, he helped create a robotic network that was said to have infected a million computers and caused millions of dollars worth of damage.
One man who has met Walker is Maarten Kleintjes, the head of the police's e-crime unit, and he spoke to Sunrise this morning.