Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko the former hacker who's worked with the US Department of Defense's secretive military research
bureau in the last three years has been employed by Google.
The 'Mudge' confirmed the swoop when he tweeted:
Given what we all pulled off within the USG, let's see if it can be done even better from outside.Goodbye DARPA, hello Google!
— .mudge (@dotMudge) April 13, 2013
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News reaching us states that, The Chocolate factory poached Zatko from the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and will put him to work in
its own research skunkworks.
He will take up an unspecified role at Motorola Mobility's Advanced Technology and Projects division.
Google snapped up Motorola's phone biz for $12.5bn
two years ago. At the time, it was believed that Google's acquisition
was motivated by its hunger for Motorola's essential mobile phone
patents as it prepared to enter the telephone hardware market.
Zatko joins his former DARPA boss Regina Dugan at Google after she was hired last year.
"Mudge" started out as a hacker with the L0pht hacker thinktank in
the 1980s. He then led a drive to encourage companies and governments to
be more honest about their security flaws, resulting in the release of
widely used software called AntiSniff, which monitors and counteracts
sniffer software used to intercept packets of data passing over a
network.
Zatko was one of the first hackers to testify in front of the US
Senate, warning that the internet could be bought down in a matter of
minutes. He was then summoned to meet Bill Clinton to explain the first
vicious DDoS attack. In 2010 he was hired by DARPA as a cybersecurity
expert.
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