Domscheit-Berg, a former network engineer for information technology giant EDS and a sometimes member of Berlin's Chaos Computer Club, first discovered WikiLeaks in 2007 via another document repository site called Cryptome.

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"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.

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He has two college degrees, two decades of experience in information technology, and worked as a network engineer for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.

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To determine the prevalence of widgets and how they collect information, the Journal asked Brian Kennish, a former Google engineer, to examine the 1, 000 most-popular websites, as ranked by Google's advertising network.

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As a hardware engineer, I knew there was a component of the computer known as the information bus.

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Former BP drilling engineer Kurt Mix was arrested last April on charges of obstructing justice related to information that he had collected, and allegedly deleted, during his role of trying to stop oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP oil spill.

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The numbers are becoming nearly as clear as information about starting salaries in traditional professions (last I heard, half a million per good engineer is the going rate, which would make sense if viewed as a few years worth of premium back-wages for a talented engineer, being hired a couple of levels above entry-level).

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