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''' NERD-IES.... *STUDENTS* ,...
NERD-DOM '''
GO GOOGLE THE WORDS DAVID DWORKEN -and you'll find a picture
of a teenager in an oversize gray suit shaking hands with former
secretary of defense Ash Carter-
Along with a headline that reads : '' Meet David Dworken '' The Teenager Who Hacked The Pentagon.'' Which is pure clickbait.
Last
spring, the Pentagon sponsored a ''bug bounty'' inviting computer
security enthusiasts to dig into Defense.gov,DoDLive, and a few of its
other public-facing websites.
Dworken, then
newly 18 and among the youngest of the 1,410 participants, found six
vulnerabilities, ranging from cross-site scripting [where malicious code
can wreak on a victim's web browser] to insecure direct object
reference- [alert : potential data breach].
He
wasn't the only one to find chinks in the sites armor 250 bug hinters
had found similar weaknesses -but he was the one who made headlines.
He was just a high school senior , after
all, and America's is a culture fascinated, and terrified, by teenagers
who know computers better than most of us will ever know anything.
Student
David Dworken had been moonlighting as a whitehat hacker
since he was 16, helping to uncover website vulnerabilities for massive
companies like Netflix, General Motors, and AT&T.
He found a remote-code execution glitch on a United website, earning 1 million air miles for his trouble.
The lack of rate-limiting on get.uber.com? That was him [and he earned $3,000 for identifying it]
At
the time of the of the Pentagon event he was a computer whiz on his
way to Northeastern University with a merit scholarship.
In
other online articles about the hack, he talked about hacking as a
public service, a way to help protect the world's digital
infrastructure.
He hoped to someday have a
career in cyber-security. he seemed like a good kid, the anti-Mr.
Robot. And as a part of the first generation of Americans who came of
age after-
WikiLeaks and Snowden, and after
concepts like privacy, security and online identity blew up in our
collective face, this smiling kid with a Supercut looked like nothing
so much as the future.
But to really find out
-to study that potential future in all its complexity, to learn how
the next generation is grappling with the-
Big
issues keeping the rest of us awake at night, you can just trust the
Internet. You have to go to a very cramped room in Boston,
When
I arrive at Stetson West, the computer science dorm in the
northeast corner of Northeastern's leafy campus, it is early December,
and David greets me wearing a T-shirt that says *Respect the
Researcher*. .
Looming at a lanky 6' 4'' , he
smiles often, with round dimpled cheeks and deep laugh lines; along with
his unprominent chin and pointy canines, he gives off an amiable Chip
'n' Dale Vibe.
Last Hack : I was competing
in a collegiate cybersecurity defense competition, and there was a
virus that was set to go off at 1:30. We kept on turning the time back so it wouldn't go off.
Tech Hero : Linus Torvalds.
IOS or Android : Android.
Preferred Coding Language : Python.
Current Computer : I made my own desk top. It's an FX -8350 pverclocked with 24 gigs of RAM and an RX 470 graphics card.
WikiLeaks Friend or Foe : No comment.
What
Would You Do With A Trillion Dollars? : That's 1% of the US GDP. That
is a huge amount. I think if I had that much money it would just be a
lot of philanthropy.
Because I don't think there's anything else that you could possibly do get rid of that much money.
*Do as much good as possible. Give to as many charities as possible*
The Honour and Serving of the Latest Operational Research on Nerds and their Nerd-dom continues.
The current class of college-age hackers will soon dominate technology -and shape the world's future.
With
respectful dedication to the Nerds, Technologists, Students, Professors
and Teachers of the World. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students
Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
''' Nu-Nerds-!WOW! '''
Good Night and God Bless
SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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