Not him. I made a throwaway because of the nature of the discussion and to eliminate the very small chance he or someone else could infer who I might be. No point giving them my main account's history to help them guess.

I'm not a fan of his at all. I do think he and his talents are interesting, and he's arguably one of the most notorious black hats of the past 5 years. I spoke nicely of him to counterbalance the listing of objectively very unethical crimes he committed against people and organizations. I did not mean "this guy stole credit cards" in an adulating way - I meant the opposite.