I am a baseball fan. I absolutely love the game of baseball and this has been the case since I was a child. Baseball was the first organized sport I played and without attempting to be cocky, I was damn good at the game. Unfortunately as I grew up other things took precedence over baseball and I abandoned playing the game. I did not, however, completely abandon baseball. To this day I still follow my favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, and everything else that happens in baseball. I wouldn’t say I take it to an extreme but I even have a favorite baseball column written by Jayson Stark of ESPN (especially the Useless Info articles).

I’m also always intrigued and fascinated by anything mechatronic. Like most people, I’m also curious about the world of spies and secrecy. I think those of us involved in the information security realm share these two common interests. So when I read or hear the media using the term “hacker” in a negative manner it’s somewhat unsettling.

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