Grand Idea Studio

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Hackaday

Tuesday, Aug 12th, 2014

The Hackaday crew are safely back from DEFCON and not missing in the desert. This means we can really start rolling out all the stuff we saw this weekend, beginning with an interview with Joe Grand, creator of the JTAGulator, early member of L0pht, and generally awesome dude. [ continue ]

Hackaday

Tuesday, Jul 15th, 2014

We’ve been fascinated by Joe Grand for years. His early talks at DEFCON, and extensive work designing badges for it, helped to put the conference on our radar. We’ve seen many pieces of hardware come from his company Grand Idea Studio over the years, and of course there was the television show Prototype This! which must have been way too awesome for some TV exec to allow it to continue. [ continue ]

Embedded Podcast

Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2014

Joe Grand spoke with us about his life as Kingpin, hardware hacking, hosting a TV show, and being a Hackaday judge. [ continue ]

Threatpost

Monday, Jun 2nd, 2014

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe “Kingpin” Grand about his childhood taking apart early PCs and radios, his introduction to the BBS and early phreaking and hacking scene in Boston, his involvement with the L0pht and @stake, and now his current life as an engineer running Grand Idea Studio.​ [ continue ]

IT Security Guru

Friday, Apr 11th, 2014

Security researcher Joe Grand, who was in the Boston hacker space L0pht as member Kingpin, said that the people who publicly release research should be thanked and treated as beneficial to the community, instead of putting them in jail. [ continue ]

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