"When I was very young, I was packed off to boarding school. It's a British thing. If you're old enough to think for yourself, it's time for boarding school. I was seven. The hope was that he would become a professional musician, so his school career revolved around music schools."
"I found a book in the library about these guys in the UK that had their house doors kicked in by the police for breaking into American military computers from their bedrooms. And it was just absolutely fascinating. It wasn't the idea of hacking, or breaking the law, or finding out what data is in American military computers that fascinated him, it was the simple concept of one computer being able to access a different computer."
"That's when my life kind of just took a divergence, and I became increasingly obsessed with the idea that you could use a computer to break into other computers and get access to things that you shouldn't have access to."
Ben Harris's journey began at boarding school in the UK, where his parents hoped he would pursue music professionally. However, discovering a book about hackers who broke into American military computers sparked his fascination with computer-to-computer access and cybersecurity. Rather than pursuing illegal activities, Harris became obsessed with understanding how unauthorized computer access worked. Growing up with limited internet access while playing computer games, he entered the hacking world through IRC communities. This early curiosity eventually transformed into a legitimate career, leading him to found WatchTowr, a platform that provides real-time attack visibility and continuously identifies and validates exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
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