My guess was CS6265 which similarly jumps pretty quickly into reverse engineering and binary exploitation. One of my favorite classes!

I built one 3 years ago and have been mostly pleased. It's a pain that with every point release I have to re-apply the patches for my audio to work, and migrating to new OS X versions can be nerve-wracking, but tonymac's site is an outstanding resource to help you through the process.

I did like the main character's name: William (Gibson) Vernor (Vinge) (Neal) Stephenson.

from the FB post "In parallel, other members of the Security team investigated the logs corresponding to this issue and confirmed that it had not been previously exploited or used maliciously."

Interesting choice of name considering http://epic.org/

We've been the Epic Browser for years now - were stuck with the name contractually!

At first I thought you meant The Song of Github, which is also really cool.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ajacksified

That's not a problem unique to encryption. Firearms have good uses and bad uses - you can hunt and feed your family, or you could kill someone. With a powerful privacy advocacy group, as proposed by OP or like the EFF as mentioned by others, you can have the same voice like the NRA does to promote responsible "good" uses of firearms but for privacy technology.

password hash cracking, perhaps? If they're using the same SHA hash.

Mozilla has a list of supported devices (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...), with the geeksphone devices being in Tier 1 support, and a couple of Android phones in Tier 2/3.

Thanks for the link it's very helpful.

If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... Installation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...