Tag: hacker
In an example of the ways that hackers actually perform a service by pointing out security flaws, Jan Krissler says he cloned a German politician’s thumbprint using nothing but a close-up photo that was taken by a “standard photo camera” and various angles from press photos. Krissler is a member of the Chaos Computer Club, […]
Guccifer, known mostly for hacking George W. Bush’s AOL email and exposing his bath-time self-portraits, has been sentenced to four years in jail. Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former cab driver, was arrested earlier this year in Romania. The prison term could be upped to seven years with the suspended three-year sentence he received after a prior hacking arrest. Along with […]
This isn’t your usual “hackers in legal trouble” news story. An unofficial hacker school known as Bitmaker Labs is facing some trouble from the Canadian government and it all started with a charming piece at the Globe and Mail about Bitmaker Labs founder Matt Gray and his intent to “change the world.” Toronto may be no Silicon Valley, but Gray […]
