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Beelzebub’s Protégé – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's Thomas J. Watson laboratory, when he met with him and other members of the company's cryptography research team over a weekend in 1974. Diffie was nearing the end of his sojourn across the United States, which semi-official crypto biographer Steven Levy paints as the romantic adventure of an eccentric genius, whose "libertarian ethic" drove him to scour the country in search of the best way to achieve cryptographic privacy.
The Pre-History of Hacker Culture: Phreaks, Mobsters and the Greatest Programmer in the World
MAMARONECK, NEW YORK – Carlo Gambino approached 12-year old Walter Shaw, Jr. after his father had been grilled that day by Senator John McClellan about his role in the mob's multiple gambling rackets. "You remember one thing about these politicians, these judges, these big corporations", the top boss of New York's five crime families told the impressionable boy. "They have a license to steal," he continued, "but we don’t need one. You remember that. Your dad’s not the bad guy, kid. They are the bad guys".