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John Wilander

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John Wilander writes about struggles against powerful adversaries where hackers are the heroes. He has a PhD in computer science and over ten years of industry experience in security and privacy engineering, currently in Silicon Valley, California.

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Review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

This hacker review concludes the original Matrix trilogy. You may want to start with my hacker reviews of The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded.

Spoiler Alert: Don't read this if you want to watch The Matrix Revolutions spoiler-free.

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The Pusher: An 87th Precinct Novel

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Neural Networks from Scratch in Python

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“I should say up front I’m not a hacker anymore. I haven’t been allowed to touch tech stuff for fifteen years.”
― John Wilander, IDENTIFIED: A hacker thriller ripped from the headlines of today's newspapers

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“I haven’t been allowed to touch tech stuff for fifteen years.”
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“Machines still don’t do what we want them to do, just what we tell them.”
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