Samy Kamkar Biography

Samy Kamkar is an American privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur. At the age of 16, Kamkar dropped out of high school and one year later, co-founded Fonality, a unified communications company based on open source software, which raised over $46 million in private funding. Samy is known for releasing the Samy worm the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm onto MySpace. The worm caused MySpace to crash. Kamkar pled guilty to a felony charge of computer hacking in Los Angeles Superior Court and he agreed to not use a computer for three years. Since 2008 Kamkar has been doing independent computer security research and consulting. He is also responsible for discovering that the Apple iPhone Google Android and Microsoft Windows Phone mobile devices transmit GPS and Wi-Fi information to their parent companies.

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