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Making Friends With a Hacker
One Saturday morning, Annie Lowrey woke up to a half-dozen email alerts telling her someone had hijacked her Facebook account. She did what most of us would probably do: She contacted Facebook, got the account back and created a new password. But she was curious. Why did the hacker target her account? What did he want?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readOne Saturday morning, Annie Lowrey woke up to a half-dozen email alerts telling her someone had hijacked her Facebook account. She did what most of us would probably do: She contacted Facebook, got the account back and created a new password. But she was curious. Why did the hacker target her account? What did he want? So she emailed him and asked. That started a virtual friendship of sorts. Madeleine speaks to Lowrey about what she learned.
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The full episode
2 of 4University Endowments, Befriending a Hacker, Movies and Purifoy at LACMA- 0:00How Much Money Do Universities Need?
- 11:53Making Friends With a HackerYou’re reading this
- 21:55Friday Film: 'Entourage,' 'Insidious: Chapter 3' and More
- 36:56Purifoy at LACMA