Author: John Biggs

Me in QP magazine

I just found a mention of my book in QP magazine. The magazine also has a nice piece about the M-A by Thomas Byczkowski who I’m going to hit up in a minute about his research.
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Need a freelance marketing/event ninja?

My wife was recently laid off from her position at Tullet Prebon and we’re thinking of doing more freelance consulting for financial and Web 2.0 companies. Need some help with your marketing plan? Need to organize a booth for an upcoming show? Consulting help for those hard to crack cases? Drop us a line at john @ bigwidelogic.com. She is an eight year veteran in financial and web marketing and has worked at Cantor Fitzgerald and Market News International.

The wonderful, vindictive Internet in all its glory

While I don’t want to get into politics, I popped by Ashley Todd’s blog just now and found that it was gone, sucked down the Stalinist memory hole. Luckily, however, anti-Todd sentiment has boiled over onto the other posts on the blog resulting in a an odd amalgam of the absolutely earnest and the fairly funny. Take this charming post, for example, in which one of the 50 Republicans muses on a dream he had about McCain winning.
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My l33t VIRUSES

I’m at home in Columbus right now and I was digging through my old papers and found this little collection of floppy disks containing all of my cracking warez. As I recall, I wrote the viruses on the VIRUSES disk from a book by Cue Publishing (??) and BlueBoy was supposed to be a wardialer and the name was based on BlueBoxing, which I read about in an article on Kevin Mitnick in PC Magazine. You’ll also appreciate that I had no idea what Blue Boy was at the time and marvel at my wide-eyed innocence. I also believe that the virus on the VIRUSES disk actually fried my Packard-Bell at the time.

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