John Biggs is a writer, consultant, programmer, and geek.He lives in Brooklyn, NY and writes about technology, security, gadgets, gear, wristwatches, and the Internet. After spending four years as an IT programmer, he switched gears and became a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Laptop, PC Upgrade, Surge, Gizmodo, Men's Health, InSync, Linux Journal, Popular Science, Sync, and He wrote few books called including Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.