You might not know Hank Asher. But you'll recognize how his creation and monetization of online databases helped change modern life.
Once a young pilot in South Florida and the Caribbean, Asher fell in with a group of drug smugglers in the 1980s and got into a lot of trouble
If anyone has ever done this on Google — and I think all of us have — it's search your own name and see what's out there. And that phenomenon was not something that could happen in the early '90s, when he was pushing this product. And he was already in with the local police, and he'd just built this new system called Accurint, which people like me — investigative journalists — still use. And so he immediately began writing an algorithm to try to figure out who the hijackers could have been.
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