Mike has a passion for Data Journalism, and for teaching hacking and privacy techniques to Investigative Journalists. He's led journalism workshops in Belgium, The Netherlands, and conducted weekend workshops for The Centre for Investigative Journalism at City College in London. His list of journalism clients include: The BBC (London) and de Volkskrant (Amsterdam). Mike also conducts a Competitive Intelligence consultancy in Las Vegas and is the author of “Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers" (San Francisco: No Starch, 2012). He is a seven-time DEFCON speaker.