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Maltigo.com. My name is Rick Howard and officially I have three titles.

Chief Security Officer, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the CyberWire.

Un officially, I'm an amateur geek, professional Kibitzer, and a general-purpose security walk.

I grew up in South Dakota, and my dad was a gold miner, but I knew that I had no interest in being a gold miner.

So I needed a way out of that place, right?

And my way out was enlisting into the services.

I volunteered to join the Air Force.

I went in the early entry program my last year in high school,

which means I joined up in, you know, during the

Christmas break before high school ended. And then what happened is I had a lot of people

pulled for me and they got me an appointment to the United States Army's preparatory school.

It says a program to get me into West Point. And that was the best thing

that's ever happened to me. And I was able to get a military academy appointment because of that.

And that was my ticket out of but not a full-time geek.

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