Quote of the Week: Hacks, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll

Researcher Tom Ptacek offers his view on how hackers get their stripes

Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading

September 7, 2007

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"IRC is a gateway drug for getting into security for real."

Security researcher Thomas Ptacek, co-founder and principal at Matasano Security, on how, as a teenager, meeting hackers on Internet Relay Chat channels got him into the security biz.

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