My Mind Leaks » social networking http://www.mymindleaks.com/blog Software, Programming, Architecture & More Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:06:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hackers create their own social networking http://www.mymindleaks.com/blog/archives/hackers-create-their-own-social-networking.html http://www.mymindleaks.com/blog/archives/hackers-create-their-own-social-networking.html#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:10:50 +0000 Maheshwaran Subramaniya http://mymindleaks.com/?p=671 Social networking fever has never left anyone. Hackers also now jumped into this social networking and GnuCitizen has created a social network for hackers and got about 1000+ hackers signed into this collaborative network to research on security loop holes in the online and electronic products. These ‘angel‘ hackers who hack the system on security issues and provide insight to the company in the security loop holes, so that the company can fix it.

“From our perspective, a hacker is a person people express admiration for his/her work, skills, creative edge, cleverness, uniqueness, intelligence, etc,” said GnuCitizen founder Petko D. Petkov in a blog post.

The network is built on Ning, a site allowing the creation of ad-hoc social networks, and programmers can create customized add-ons using the Google-backed Open Social API. GnuCitizen is famous for finding out various security concerns in various products including the Gmail’s security threat. GnuCitizen is encouraging businesses to use the site to seek out security researchers for jobs or particular projects

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