“The finder, 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, Brian J. Hogan, received $5000 for handing the prototype over to Gizmodo,” Jacobsson reports. “In an article published Thursday, CNet reported that Hogan “had help” in finding a buyer for the phone. According to CNet, 27-year-old University of California at Berkeley student Sage Robert Wallower was the go-between for Hogan and the tech sites.”
Jacobsson reports, “Wallower, a former Navy cryptologic technician, previously worked as a computer security officer at Securitas and possesses ‘top-secret clearance,’ according to his LinkedIn profile.”
Full article here.
First post! Yeah, Bitches.
if you really have or had a t.s., then you don’t go advertising it on the web or anywhere else.
$5k was not much for dishonor, cheat and thief to be your new titles.
He could have returned it to Apple and been a hero, instead he’s in the crosshairs of a company with the best lawyers in the world and they want to burn the little creep(s) who outted their secrets.
Make them pay Mr Jobs, lets see body parts flying and their blood flowing in the streets. Next time the bloggers will think twice before releasing Apple secrets into the wild.
Will people want to go to Gizmodo website to see the dumbsh*ts who did this? I know I don’t.
Personally I’ve always thought Gizmodo sounded like some sort of masturbation web site.
In my experience, folks with top secret clearance don’t publish the fact on social media sites like LinkedIn or Facebook. I call BS on his clearance. He’s a wannabe…
all we need now are some foreign spies and aliens from out of space
Steve516 is 100% right.
Either he is the world’s biggest dumbass and this is how he will lose his clearance, or he doesn’t have one to begin with.
If you have any kind of clearance, the best you’ll publicize it is when you had over the resume to someone that needs that information. You don’t put it on FaceTube.
@fred:
You are correct in that the gov side of things, the central adjudicating facility could be anyone that the gov uses. Whereas, for DoD and military personnel, the primary adjudicating facility is DONCAF. All active duty military, reserves, and DoD personnel with clearance go through OPM to submit their clearance request. It is adjudicated by DONCAF and viewed through the Joint Personnel Authentication System (JPAS). JPAS will tell you all the clearance that you have after adjudication.
“Plus it is not hard to get one, they practically give them out to anyone who touches data.”
A Confidential clearance maybe, but *not* TS.
@ Mungo
“I leave the clearance off my LinkedIn profile. Some level of clearance can be inferred from my work experience and associations in LinkedIn. OTOH, I do include my clearance when I provide my resume to companies.”
Understood Mungo.
You’re obviously a subtle person that that knows how to handle your responsibilities.
Our subject though, just seems to want some kind of “bragging rights”.
Another Irish Dude
I’m in the USA, but my clearance runs to Harp, Smithwick’s and an occasional Wexford Cream Ale. I, like Mungo, do not post this information on Linkedin.
Well said silverhawk.
The next time you’re in Ireland, I’ll buy you a pint (or two).