Information security

Did a Self-Identified Spy Hunter Leak an NSA Secret on LinkedIn?

James Atkinson's LinkedIn profile is epic—over 42,000 words to be more precise—outlining a long career spent in surveillance and engineering.

Or, as he calls himself at the top: "Student, Soldier, Spy Hunter, Scientist, Electronics Engineer, Computer Programmer, Cyberoperations, Computer and Digital Devices Forensics."

Part of that career, he claims, was spent working with the National Security Agency on a variety of projects, one of which, called SCARAB, caught the eye of Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union.