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Marlinspike, who served as head of product security, left the company last month.
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So when Google introduced encrypted search last May, Marlinspike saw an opportunity to solve that trust problem.
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Marlinspike says he hopes to add more password formats in the future.
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On Wednesday Marlinspike, a hacker and cybersecurity researcher, introduced a new, even-more-private version of the GoogleSharing privacy tool he launched eight months ago.
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Now the upgraded version of GoogleSharing pulls off another privacy trick for the doubly paranoid: preventing Marlinspike or any other GoogleSharing administrator from seeing user data, too.
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With the addition of security stars like Miller and Marlinspike, it seems Twitter is aiming to make sure those users are protected from less benevolent hackers, too.
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Last year independent hacker Moxie Marlinspike created a tool call SSLstrip to invisibly remove the SSL protections on secure sites when a user click through from an insecure site.
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On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched CloudCracker, an upgrade to the Web-based penetration testing service he formerly called WPACracker, with a major upgrade to the speed and versatility of that password-breaking service.
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But Twitter has since worked to beef up its security, in part through adding well-known white-hat hackers to its staff such as cryptography-focused Moxie Marlinspike and former NSA analyst Charlie Miller.
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Along with boosts in speed and thoroughness of its password guessing, Marlinspike says CloudCracker will now also offer APIs that mean developers could build applications that use its password cracking resources within other programs, or even on mobile devices with an Android or iPhone app.
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