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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Become A 1337 Hacker

ForAllSecure

In this episode of The Hacker Mind, we return to where we started in Episode One: Why is West Point -- and for that matter, others -- Training Hackers? The point, I think, with all these CTFs is that people are teaching themselves, through these games, how to be better hackers. Vamosi: So how do you become a legit elite hacker?

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. It's a non-trivial exercise to index that (for all sorts of reasons), but it also seems like an increasingly worthy exercise. So, what stands out?

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Gab Has Been Breached

Troy Hunt

differs: For example, because they couldn't find any public discussion about the breach they assumed that @WIRED reporters were "essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business" There are *always* discussions held in private about a breach before it's made public. Gab's approach.

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