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mdowd
@mdowd
Internet Hacker. Founder of @vigilant_labs. Previously, co-founder of Azimuth Security (now L3Harris Trenchant)
Sydney, Australia
Joined July 2008
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    If the FBI want to get into an iPhone w/o users permission, they should ask someone who's done it before, like U2
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    2000: Facial recognition tech is going to enable the surveillance state and be the end of privacy/anonymity 2017: I am a cat
    GIF
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    Now that Alan Turing is on the 50 pound note, they should rename ATMs to “Turing Machines”
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    I think this conversation is exactly how docker started
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    Just met @elonmusk and got to chat to him about some car and satellite hacking! Was awesome to hear about their security programs and plans for the future!
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    I wish ISO would make a standard for how hotel shower taps work
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    This bug should probably be branded FacePalm
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    In the 80s, the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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    Fun fact: There is an island called “NULL island” at long/lat co-ords 0,0 and like in computers, it is unmapped (doesn’t exist) and is used to catch errors!
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    There’s an add-on to MS flight simulator 2020 where you are just a passenger in economy for hours
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    Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Hackers documentary, in which the planet was hacked.
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    Today’s quarantine lesson: if you “ok google” in a zoom meeting, you can mess with about three or four peoples houses at once
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    The movie Sneakers came out 30 years ago today. It was this movie that made me want to get in to hacking. They didn't really mention all the fucking heap grooming though.
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    I feel like this aged well.
    If the FBI want to get into an iPhone w/o users permission, they should ask someone who's done it before, like U2