Marc Weber Tobias - Ralph Nader with a slim jim

[Sabre]

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Tobias is laughing. And laughing. The effect is disconcerting. It's a bwa-ha-ha kind of evil mastermind laugh—appropriate if you've just sacked Constantinople, checkmated Deep Blue, or handed Superman a Dixie cup of kryptonite Kool-Aid, but downright scary in a midtown Manhattan restaurant during the early-bird special.
Our fellow diners begin to stare. Tobias doesn't notice and wouldn't care anyway. He's as rumpled and wild as a nerdy grizzly bear. His place mat is covered in diagrams and sketched floor plans and scribbled arrows. His laugh fits him like a tinfoil hat. It goes on for a solid 20 seconds.
But Tobias isn't crazy. Far from it. He's a professional lock breaker, a man obsessively—perhaps compulsively—dedicated to cracking physical security systems. He doesn't play games, he rarely sees movies, he doesn't attend to plants or pets or, currently, a girlfriend. Tobias hacks locks. Then he teaches the public how to hack them, too.

Excellent read

[zaxrex]

Sort of like the modern day uni-dimensional Richard Feynman.
That man rocked. This man hacks.

[chicken n waffles]

i understand why we "need" people like him, but man he certainly comes off as a DICK.

[complacent]

*golf clap*

Dick or not, the man has a point. A damn fine one.

[schvin]

pretty cool read. it is handy that other people point out the useful wired articles, so i can avoid their site at all costs :p

[complacent]

pretty cool read. it is handy that other people point out the useful wired articles, so i can avoid their site at all costs :p

qft, lol

[schvin]

minor hijack; this one in from bruce sterling's weblog:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/ftf-gorby/

[Sabre]

minor hijack; this one in from bruce sterling's weblog:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/ftf-gorby/

Wow, very cool! lol, maybe we'll have them growing our circuits before too long!

[schvin]

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/mag ... ntPage=all

interesting read....