Earlier today, a member of the British press contacted me asking if I had any photographs of the arrest of a suspected hacker in Wickford, Essex.
Quite why I, based in Oxford (which is about a 100 mile drive from where the man was arrested), would have photos of late-night goings-in in Essex wasn’t really explained by the journalist. But let’s not worry about that now.
In short, I explained that I didn’t have any photos and they would have to look elsewhere.
“But you do have a photo of the hacker! I’ve seen it on Facebook! But we want an unblurred version!” exclaimed the reporter.
Baffled, I asked her to explain exactly what she had seen. And this is it..
There it is, a picture of a pixellated man being lead away from a building by two pixellated people who we…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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