Taking advantage of secrecy laws and outright bribery, he cheated investors out of $7 billion by selling phony certificates of deposit.
Google also detected the phony certificates circulating in Iran and advised its users last week to change their passwords and be alert for unfamiliar Web addresses.
Apparently, the hacker was able to issue about 500 phony certificates for major websites including Google, enabling that fraudster to impersonate a legitimate site and thereby intercept, for example, Gmail communications.
And that is precisely what will happen until Washington understands that that same 21-year-old Iranian (if he actually exists) could be used to hack the power grid, or issue phony security certificates, or infiltrate a bank, or send e-mails to you and me pretending to be the AICPA.
In April, it emerged that Guzmán's lawyers had employed a ruse involving a phony birth certificate to sneak a woman into Altiplano for an unauthorized visit.
And he got into trouble over a phony smog certificate for his $1 million McLaren F1 sports car.
"And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors".
*Doesn't have the grades, can't do the work, needs extensive tutoring to have a chance at ANY college, unless Affirmative Action and sealing her transcripts can be arranged (very likely!) Phony Birth Certificate, sealed transcripts from Harvard AND Columbia, 'gap year', see a pattern?" As hard as it is to imagine, some other comments were even worse.
Perhaps it's a bigger surprise that he hadn't gone there yet, but right-wing rocker Ted Nugent added birtherism to his repertoire of anti-Obama criticism on Wednesday, attacking President Obama's "phony birth certificate" before suggesting the president was a Muslim in a column in WorldNetDaily.
