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Noah Shachtman
Security
Sep 11, 2008 1:21 PM

Danger, Spook Conference!

I’ll be speaking at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference Friday afternoon. See you spyboys there!

I'll be speaking at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Conference Friday afternoon. See you spyboys there!

Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at WIRED. He's the former editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast. ... Read More
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