Give this Man a Haircut and Support a Worthwhile Cause

Gal Shpantzer, friend of the blog, fellow blogger, and a writer for CSO Online asked us to bring some attention to a worthy cause. As part of his talk at Security B-Sides Boston in Cambridge, MA, he will partake in certain unabashed activities for each monetary contribution threshold reached for Hackers for Charity.

If the total amount of money raised is $3,000 or more, he will shave his head into a Mohawk.

At the $5,000 level, he says he will wear a kilt. For this second one, we’re not sure how doing something he likes to do anyway is a personal challenge, but whatever.

The Specifics

To donate via PayPal, start at the following address: http://www.hackersforcharity.org/hackers-for-charity/get-involved/#Long_Journey.

When you receive a receipt from PayPal for the donation amount, please e-mail the relevant portions to: mohawk@security-twits.com. If the above thresholds are reached by April 24th, Gal Shpantzer will really need that hat he’s always pictured in wherever he goes.

About Hackers for Charity

Hackers for Charity is a non-profit organization created by Johnny Long. The overall goals of Hacking for Charity are listed as follows:

• We feed children through our “food for work” program
• We build computer labs to help students learn skills and land jobs that are key to disrupting poverty’s vicious cycle.
• We provide technical assistance to charities that can not afford IT services.

A center was recently opened under the initiative in Jinja, Uganda in East Africa. The goal of the center is to provide hands on computer training to a community that will soon reap the benefits of high speed fiber lines such as the ones running from Mombasa. In order to realize job creation in these areas, people who have never before touched a computer require hands on experience, experience that can be gained using the free training resources and heavily discounted computer usage fees available at the new center.

You can read the rest of what is an interesting progression, see which firms have supported the training initiative, and even read the story of one condescending company that wouldn’t help here.

Johnny Long

Johnny Long is a security researcher best known for popularizing Google hacking, using search phrases in the popular search engine to identify vulnerable services on the Internet and for being as he’s described it, a “Christian hacker”. He’s published a book on the Google hacking techniques, and contributed to more than ten other works in information security literature.

Finally

We at Praetorian also think Gal should die the mohawk one color and the rest of his hair another.

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Filed Under: Technology in Society

Tags: google hacking, johnny long