Marc Maiffret, now 25, is the CTO and chief hacking office at eEye Digital Security. He discovered several critical Windows vulnerabilities in the late ’90s. He and a team of eEye researchers were the first to detect the first major Microsoft worm, the infamous Code Red. “Hacking is a business now,” he says. “I wish kids out there were passionate about doing for the sake of doing it. But I [suppose] if you have the skills, why not make a living””]
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