Making $15k-$20k "in an hour" is not the same as making it "an hour" (equivalent to per hour). This is a mistake often made in evaluating the profitability of a business ideas. For example, our business runs procurement events that culminate in a real-time reverse auction with a specified duration of around 15 minutes. It is not unusual for us to bill $40k for a large event. But what about all the work we do that leads up to that brief event? We can't rationally exclude that in the evaluation of our profitability<p>Likewise with this blackhat; how long did it take to build their botnet? How many $15k-$20k opportunities present themselves in a year? How much of that figure can be attributed to self-agrandisement; an attribute commonly associated with l33t hackers?