David Maynor is best known for his controversial Macbook hack. He grew up in Pembroke, N.C., a town that just got its first Wal-Mart. Like most of today’s premier security researchers, Maynor didn’t get a college degree. Maynor started hacking his parents’ and sisters’ phone calls at age 14, in what he calls the “lamest” of hacks. He says he gets a kick out of how people romanticize security research.”]
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