Ralph Langner, a German computer security researcher who was among the first people to study Stuxnet, told various media outlets that after Stuxnet recognizes its specific target, it does something no other malware program has ever done.
By comparison, the Duke device represents the "first cut" at making gigapixel cameras for general use, said Shree Nayar, a computer-vision researcher at Columbia University in New York, who has seen the camera at work but wasn't involved in the project.
According to Neil Smith, a researcher from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, unauthorized access to those devices could be a very real threat -- if you happen to own a Samsung model.
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Realizing he had bigger ambitions, he enrolled in a university to study human-computer interaction with the intention of becoming a researcher.
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Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway.
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While those who are familiar with Deolalikar say he is a talented and serious researcher, he is nonetheless not widely known in the worlds of math or computer sciences.
Kevin Bong, a Wisconsin-based security researcher and penetration tester, has developed what he calls the Mini Pwner, a spy computer smaller than a smartphone designed to be inconspicuously plugged into an ethernet port to gain access to a corporate network, feeding information back to a nearby hacker over its wifi signal.
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