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Charles Fracchia
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Charles Fracchia
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CEO Black Mesa, Chair of @BIOISAC (501c3), @DARPA ISAT member, former founder and CEO of @biobright_org (acq, now part of @dotmatics)
Boston, MA
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Joined January 2010
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Jul 31, 2019
    Very excited to be speaking at the @defcon BioHacking village (@DC_BHV) with collaborator @coreymhudson. Come to our talk: “From buffer overflowing genomics tools to securing biomedical file formats” Friday @ 11AM!
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Sep 20, 2018
    I’m pretty sure @jnd1er (Don Norman) dreams about this elevator button in his sleep. Simple and elegant, this behavior should be the standard for elevators. This is in South Korea for the record! #goodUX #elevators #design @PasteurKorea
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Jun 14, 2019
    The @defcon BioHacking Village (@DC_BHV) CFP closes today! @coreymhudson and I submitted our talk proposal “From buffer overflowing genomics tools to securing biomedical file formats” 🎉🤞 You should too! #genomics #security #synbio #bioinformatics
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Nov 9, 2023
    This is something that doesn’t get sufficient attention. Data integrity issues are real and far more common than people realize. It’s time to authenticate and verify every piece of data as it’s used. It’ll require tooling and changes in infrastructure to allow it.
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    Jonathan Jacobs 🧬🦠🕹️🏕️
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    Nov 9, 2023
    All the major public #genomics databases have intentionally falsified data in them but researchers either don’t care, don’t think it will affect them, or don’t believe genomic misinformation is a problem.
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Sep 11, 2018
    I'm excited to report that our first H1B application got approved today! Having created @BioBright_org as an immigrant entrepreneur, it feels great to be creating more jobs in the US. This allows us to build more secure biomedical infrastructure #H1B #CyberSecurity #biotech
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Nov 6, 2019
    Do “I ❤️ FDA” or “I ❤️ CDC” stickers exist? I used CDC website yesterday to get key animal disease information, and the #wehearthackers efforts and feel like there isn’t enough ❤️ going around! @beauwoods @headinthebooth @eperakslis @AndreaCoravos @US_FDA @CDCgov
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Sep 14, 2018
    1/ The Woman Who Smashed Codes by @jfagone is one of the several books I have read about cryptography and history of the field this year. It details the life of Elizebeth Friedman a pioneer of American code breaking”. I thoroughly recommend it! brainpickings.org/2018/09/06/the…
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    Charles Fracchia
    @charlesfracchia
    Mar 4, 2019
    After almost 3 years of wait, I’m SOO excited to be getting my @theBentoLab! And despite the wait I’m still as giddy as I was when I initially ordered it through the Kickstarter campaign. @bethanwolfenden @PhilippBoeing your perseverance has paid off, great follow through!
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Jul 27, 2018
    Very excited to announce that one more of our patents on using sensor networks to derive the context of a biological experiment is going to be issued shortly! Thank you to @DARPA and @SPAWARHQ for supporting the early work! @rwegrzyn
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    Charles Fracchia
    @charlesfracchia
    Dec 22, 2018
    When traveling this holiday season, remember to practice Safe Hex, use a #usbcondom before you plug into random ports at the airport :)
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    Charles Fracchia
    @charlesfracchia
    Mar 15, 2019
    Once again @DARPA funding fundamental and necessary work. Props to everyone at the agency for pushing this to be #opensource and available for all to develop from! We need to make similar pushes in #biotech #biomanufacturing and #pharma ! motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Nov 22, 2021
    Replying to @MalwareJake and @lilyhnewman
    Thanks @MalwareJake. Yes, it's been an issue to deal with. Lots of work has gone into finding this one, and we urge the whole industry to use the IOCs shared by @BIOISAC to hunt for this threat.
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    Charles Fracchia
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    Jun 25, 2020
    Very excited to announce today that @BioBright_org is joining the @dotmatics family today! The whole team is looking forward to accelerating the #datadriven future of the field!
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    Charles Fracchia
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    May 2, 2014
    My three advisors (George Church, Joe Jacobson and Neil Gershenfeld) on stage at #MLTalks at the @medialab
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