Talk:Samy Kamkar

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Samy Kamkar is a notable enough security researcher a page about him would be valuable.

Eres un pen...dejo la palabra — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.170.129.100 (talk) 05:43, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Evercookie he released recently was reported on the front page of NYTimes on october 11th. His router hackers have also received widespread media attention as well.

Samy's MySpace Worm[edit]

I do not believe that Samy's worm actually crashed MySpace. My understanding is that MySpace chose to take their site down as a precaution while they figured out the worm and how to deal with it. GeorgeX2 (talk) 04:10, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Intro Paragraph need reworking[edit]

Sentence structure is atrocious, inappropriate references to publicity. I would do it myself but I have no interest in involving myself in the insular stylistic arguments of the wikipedia oligarchy.