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- ↑ "Hacker Sentenced For Providing Data Theft Tool in National Identity Theft Case" (PDF). justice.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 13, 2013.
- ↑ "acknowledgements - Stephen Watt (@uT_infection) for a bunch of stuff, notably assisting greatly with porting the seccomp-bpf policy generator to gosecco as well as the early version of the log monitor". Subgraph OS.
- ↑ "We are happy to announce that Stephen Watt (@uT_Infection) has joined the @Subgraph OS development team".
- ↑ "DEF CON 22 - Ladar Levison and Stephen Watt - Dark Mail". Youtube.