1. Kevin Lee Poulsen was born on November 30,1965 and is an American contributing editor at The Daily Beast, a former black-hat hacker, and convicted fraudster.
14 Facts About Kevin Poulsen
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Kevin Poulsen was born in Pasadena, California, on November 30,1965.
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On June 1,1990, Poulsen took over all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.
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Kevin Poulsen was arrested in April 1991 following an investigation led in part by John McClurg.
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In June 1994, Kevin Poulsen pleaded guilty to seven counts of conspiracy, fraud, and wiretapping.
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Kevin Poulsen was sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary and banned from using computers or the internet for three years after his release.
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Kevin Poulsen was the first American to be released from prison with a court sentence that banned him from using computers and the internet after his prison sentence.
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Kevin Poulsen reinvented himself as a journalist after his release from prison and sought to distance himself from his criminal past.
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Kevin Poulsen served in a number of journalistic capacities at California-based security research firm SecurityFocus, where he began writing security and hacking news in early 2000.
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Kevin Poulsen left SecurityFocus in 2005 to freelance and pursue independent writing projects.
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Kevin Poulsen's work identified 744 registered people with MySpace profiles and led to the arrest of one, Andrew Lubrano.
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In June 2010, Kevin Poulsen broke the initial story of the arrest of US service member Chelsea Manning and published the logs of Manning's chats with Adrian Lamo regarding WikiLeaks.
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In June 2019, Kevin Poulsen was accused of doxing Shawn Brooks, a 34-year-old Trump supporter living in The Bronx, when Kevin Poulsen revealed Brooks' identity in an article published in The Daily Beast on June 1,2019 as the alleged creator and disseminator of a fake video which showed Nancy Pelosi speaking in a slurred manner.
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Kevin Poulsen later turned over development of SecureDrop to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and joined the foundation's technical advisory board.