62 154,000 tons of the stuff: Edwin Mwase, “Shabanie and Mashaba Mines (SMM): It’s All About the Money,” The Sunday Mail, March 22, 2015.

63 played on a console: His gaming obsession, according to Mathew Smith, was a space combat game called Wing Commander.

64 later recount to employees: Le Roux once told a call center manager that he had “made his first million” selling porn as a teenager in South Africa.

65 one of his early employers: In addition to my interview with this early employer, I was able to verify Le Roux’s early work life through his own extensively docu- mented résumé, which came to light as part of the evidence in USA v. Berkman. While it was not submitted at trial, I was able to obtain a copy of it.

65 spending six months in Virginia Beach: USA v. Hunter, Document 580, April 5, 2018, at 545. Also interview with Mathew Smith.

65 followed her to Sydney: Interview with relative. Le Roux’s résumé also has him arriving in Australia in 1995.

65 picked up a variety of contract programming jobs: Le Roux résumé.

65 obsessed with his work: Mark Schliebs, “The Geek, the Guns and the Trail of Bodies,” The Australian, April 2, 2016. Schliebs was able to locate and inter- view Le Roux’s first wife. “He wanted to see the world and vowed never to be tied down in one spot,” Schliebs wrote that Le Roux had told her.

66 he wrote in November 1995: Many message boards from the 1990s have been archived and made searchable as part of Google Groups, Google’s online mes- sage board feature. All quotes here are Le Roux’s original writings, and I have confirmed their authenticity by matching their associated email addresses with addresses verified as Le Roux’s through other means, such as website registra- tions and court documents. In this case, Paul Le Roux, “France is a great Country, Australia is a worthless DUMP,” alt.religion.kibology, November 5, 1995.

66 “What kind of a dickhead are you?”: Andrew Murdoch, “Moving to Aus from the US—HELP!,” aus.general, November 20, 1995.

66 a thirty-eight-part post: Paul Le Roux, “My Nationality, My Views,” aus .general, November 12, 1995.

66 alt.security.scramdisk, alt.security.pgp, and sci.crypt: These forums, like the Australia-related ones, are archived and searchable on Google Groups.

67 initially called Caveo: As late as March 1999, before the software was re- leased, Le Roux was referring to the software as Caveo, per highly technical correspondence with other encryption coders that was forwarded to me.

67 Le Roux’s software allowed: Details concerning Le Roux’s software derive from the release notes on the E4M website, available through the Internet Archive at web.archive.org/web/20010331171326/http://www.e4m.net.

67 a post to the alt.security.scramdisk board: Paul Le Roux, “New version of free disk encryption product for NT,” alt.security.scramdisk, June 27, 1999.

67 written “from scratch”: Paul Le Roux, “Public statement by Paul Le Roux,” alt.security.scramdisk, June 16, 2004.