Chup Using His Software Skills With Freedom, Not a Big Payout, in Mind Nadim Kobeissi, master hacker, summoned for interrogation multiple times as a teenager by cyber-intelligence authorities in Beirut, Lebanon, sat in the backyard of a restaurant in Brooklyn, astounded that he was being treated to lunch. NY Times Source
Joe Kudos to Nadim for being featured in the NY Times! On the other hand, the author of this article is probably the worst tech writer I've come across in years, maybe in my whole life. And I read Tech Crunch daily...
The-MMMs nadim.cc a lot of my friends personally know the guy from LAU, wasn't around him at the time, great person, very intelligent. Good person to follow on twitter as well Also there is an interesting Interview he had on TV, discussing Wikileaks, its worth to view
arithma http://nadim.cc/s/shapes.gif Does anyone know if the dude created this himself. If yes, then he's touched by Gods.
samer I agree with Rahmu, the writer is just horrible. I doubt Nadim is going to call himself a "master hacker" or claim that he was "summoned for interrogation multiple times as a teenager by cyber-intelligence authorities in Beirut", clearly the latter is just made up. It's nice to see more Lebanese people getting attention on the NYT. Not so long ago Ayah Bdeir got a feature there, and the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan also got an article covering her debut album.
Chup arithma wrotehttp://nadim.cc/s/shapes.gif Does anyone know if the dude created this himself. If yes, then he's touched by Gods. I'm staring endlessly at this. What is that ?
Chup It's on the dude's page: nadim.cc Ai it is If i could only see it frame by frame or a very slow animation
MrClass It is made of 172 frames. I have it in frames, if anyone wants it let me know (made a pdf file of the frames, 1.3MB total size).
Joe Nadim made the news recently, when he was detained at the US border for an hour, with officers questionning him about CryptoCat, his encrypted chat app.
rolf He talks about the arab spring and how CryptoCat would've helped... CryptoCat is a great project and I hope it'll catch on, and I can see it's utility. But I don't see it as an innovative "new infrastructure", it only takes things that we already have, and take them to the next level. As we've seen in the arab spring, governements have no problem with shutting down internet and phone networks altogether. The only thing I can think off which would circumvent this is satellite phone, which are unfortunately currently quite expensive and hard to get a hand on. I think this is the missing link, I think that the piece of the puzzle that might change things and make a difference is at the network, not software layer. What he's doing is still a great initiative, but also plagued with quite some questions, like the one above, or legal questions.