Heat, Kelso and the Hacker Mindset
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
He is one of the co-founders of Threatpost and previously wrote for TechTarget and eWeek, when magazines were still a thing that existed. Dennis enjoys finding the stories behind the headlines and digging into the motivations and thinking of both defenders and attackers. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge, and most of his kids’ English papers.
In the 1995 classic Heat, the character Kelso is an old-school hacker with a background as a DARPA scientist who uses his
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Chris Kirsch, CEO of runZero, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the problem of trying to secure what you don't know you have, asset management, and his history in the original crypto war.
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