Ilmārs Poikāns

thumb|Ilmārs Poikāns 2011Ilmārs Poikāns (born November 4, 1978) is a Latvian AI researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Latvia. He has used the pseudonym Neo (of The Matrix), and is also known in the press as Latvia's Robin Hood. Quotes I didn’t hack anything there wasn’t any need to get past the website’s security. There weren’t ANY security checks when you entered direct URL for document data download as file. URL has only one parameter EDS document ID, which is sequential. Anybody that knows a little bit about how the Internet works could do the same what Neo did. I had some doubts, that top ranking public officials shared the same pain as others during the economic crisis. Published data showed that to everybody. It is sad that there weren’t any consequences for those officials except public shaming. But I did my part, showing the problem. It was responsibility of state to react and take countermeasures to it. At least, a law was recently passed that requires the publication of detailed data about the income of state officials. Basically, what Neo did before now is perfectly legal and required. Getting to know Neo the Latvian hacker External links Category:Living people Category:Computer scientists from Latvia Category:1978 births