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We help you handle the have-to-dos so you can focus on the can't-wait-to-dos. It's a new workday. Hello, my name is Larry Cashdaller and I am a principal security intelligence response engineer at Akamai Technologies. technologies. If you look at my 1986, I think it was my sixth grade class, it says computer

scientist for my career path. So I had a love of computers when I was really young.

I guess I knew what field I wanted to get into right off the bat.

My school in New York City, this is Brooklyn, in the 1980s, was one of the first schools in New York to get computers.

So I had a computer class where they were teaching us just basic programming.

And then my family had relocated to Maine.

And the first school I had gone to didn't have a computer course. This was

Forrest High School. Wasn't into computers at all. I kind of drifted away. I was struggling with

being relocated and ended up moving away again and going to school, which had a computer science department. And I ended up signing up for programming courses.

I had a roommate who was also in a computer science class. And he didn't have a computer, so he would come over and use mine.

You know, I'd let him use schoolwork.

And I remember losing track of my friend for about a week.

So I go to his room and I knock on the door, and my friend had discovered Linux.

And what happened was he had installed it on his computer and had just stopped leaving his

room for a week.

He says, you've got to see this.

And I'm like, okay.

So I come and he goes, it's Linux.

And I'm like, what is that?

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