Hacker Conversations: Vinnie Liu, Performer Turned Ringmaster
Vinnie Liu was recruited by the NSA when he was just 17 years old. He is now the CEO of Bishop Fox.
He says little about his work at the NSA, only that “My first year was on the red team, and in the second year, it was more externally facing.”
He had been recommended to the NSA by an Air Force guy he never met face-to-face and whose ‘handle’ he no longer remembers. But being recruited by such an organization in such a manner at such an early age would indicate a prodigious hacker. This is not the image he projects.
“I hadn’t been engaged in hacking in anything like a grand scale, like some scattered spider. But I spent a lot of time learning how systems worked and figuring out how to set systems up and take them down. I’ve always been more on the white hat side....
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