Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit

Corey Thuen is a hacker with a hacker mindset that is focused on the right way to do wrong things to get the right result.

Corey Thuen is the founder and CEO of Gravwell, a firm with a slight difference: it develops data analytics and vulnerability detection through a combined team of big data experts and hackers.

When interviewing a candidate for the hacker half of the team, he looks for people who have what he calls ‘the evil bit’. “Do they have that ‘evil streak’? Do they have that adversarial mindset that can look at a product and seek out ways to exploit it? If they don’t have that evil bit, I don’t think we can teach it.” He accepts that it may be possible for some people to develop one, but in his own experience, it’s either there or it’s not. Natural-born hacker is more a fact...

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