In the annals of absurdity, we find Peter Williams, an Australian of no small ambition, who, like a character from a Gogolian satire, traded the sacred for the profane. A former general manager of a U.S. defense contractor, and once a staffer in the Australian Air Force, he succumbed to the siren call of $A1.8 million (a paltry $1.27 million in the global bazaar of greed), paid in the elusive coin of cryptocurrency. Over three long years, he delivered eight cyber tools of immense power to a Russian broker, a man with ties to the shadowy apparatus of the Russian state.