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DAN GOODIN
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Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage
of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and
passwords. A journalist with more than 25 years experience, he has been
chronicling the exploits of white-hat, grey-hat and black-hat hackers since 2005
as a reporter for the Associated Press and later, The Register. He has a
Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Massachusetts and a Masters
of Journalism from UC Berkeley. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking,
and following the independent music scene. Based in San Francisco, Dan can
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