Internet Security and Programming

At the end of the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas a week ago Thursday, I had a few minutes to sit down with James Finch, head of the FBI’s Cyber Division. What follows is an excerpted Q&A from that discussion, in which Finch describes himself as a serious geek who refuses to be spooked by organized cyber criminal gangs that target online banking customers and other ‘Netizens. Q: I see you’ve got a nice MacBook Pro there. Are you a pure Mac user? A: No, I am not. I raised my daughters on Windows machines, but my 4-year-old son, I’m raising him on a Mac. I just bought him an iMac. I prefer flavors of Unix over Windows. Q: Which flavors? A: Well, I’m running SUSE, Fedora 9. I don’t spend as much quality time with these operating systems as I used to. Q: So what does the

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