"One wrong turn and my wheel would get stuck, and it would be over, " he said.

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The San Francisco-based criminal defense attorney has been quietly making a name for herself as the one hackers turn to when they find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

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The numbers are small because they are the small residual of calculations involving some other, extremely large, numbers, over long time periods, subject to assumptions which will almost certainly turn out to be wrong, in one direction or another.

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