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Rik Ferguson (@rik_ferguson)
- Twitter Bio:
- Director Security Research @ Trend Micro - I tweet as myself, expect some non security stuff too.
- Location:
- Europe
- Website:
- http://countermeasures.trendmicro.eu
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NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander speaking in June 2010 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Credit: CSIS/Flickr
Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the governmentâs effort to protect America from cyberattacks. Due to the secretive nature of his job, he maintains a relatively low profile, so when he does speak, people listen closely. On July 9, Alexander addressed a crowded room at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington,
Editor’s note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll. Follow him on Twitter @rabite.In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet. There was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address. I thought it was egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a complete target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the API output to a journalist at Gawker.I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them. I thought this
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