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The New York Times
At Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, new pressures are reshaping the community’s attitudes toward privacy and anonymity. Joe Grand, who for many years operated under his alias, Kingpin, understands the complexities of the relationship as well as anyone.
[ continue ]Motherboard
Grand was tasked with designing the first ever electronic badge, which premiered at Def Con 14 in 2006. The first badge didn’t include any games or puzzles, but was meant to be a sort of platform that would allow people to familiarize themselves with hardware hacking. Grand continued to design Def Con’s electronic badges for the next four years and challenged himself to put a new spin on them each time.
[ continue ]Engadget
Hacker Joe Grand has an idea about how to share information using LED lights. He built OpticSpy, a device that converts an optical signal (visible or infrared) into a message. The OpticSpy “reads” light pulses, converts the data into words and sends the correspondence off to a connected computer via USB.
[ continue ]Attify Webinar
Aditya Gupta from Attify talks to the popular hardware hacker and creator Joe Grand from Grand Idea Studio on his journey in hardware exploration, doing TV shows, and creating bestselling products.
[ continue ]Infosecurity Magazine
Reuniting six members of the L0pht hacker team at the DEFCON conference in Las Vegas, moderator Elinor Mills asked DilDog, Space Rogue, Mudge, John Tan, Weld Pond and Kingpin (Joe Grand), who used their hacker names as they had done 20 years ago when testifying to the US Senate, whether they felt that the original testimony had worked.
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