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Modern Universities, Payday Loans, and Bitcoin Assassinations

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The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship – Inc. “By all counts and measures, Bradley Smith is an unequivocal business success. He’s CEO of Rescue One Financial, an Irvine, California-based financial services company that had sales of nearly $32 million last year. Smith’s company has grown some 1,400 percent in the last … Read More

Password Cracking, Bank Robbing, and Fighting Over Dinosaur Bones

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Anatomy of a Hack – Ars Technica Just how easy is it for a cracker to solve a password? Ars interviewed three crackers who demolished a list of 16,000 passwords, one with a 90% success rate. How A War Hero Became a Serial Bank Robber – Buzzfeed One combat medic … Read More

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