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To staff his business, (now evolving to the brand ), O’Brien has hired other geniuses and child prodigies to solve problems for clients, big and small. As a testament to the company’s work, late last year O’Brien was individually recognized by the Fort Wayne Base Council and the Northeast Indiana Defense Industry Association for saving military lives and awarded a Combat Infantry Badge and part of a Battle Dress Uniform from Operation Desert Storm. assets on projects that retrofit government systems, where needed, working backwards to re-insert security where any prior loopholes exist. The Scorpion Computer Services team works to protect the military and the agencies on NORAD mountain to protect U.S. asset who is protected by an EB-11 visa, reserved for persons of extraordinary ability. It took some work on all sides to get him out of Ireland, but O’Brien is now a U.S. (He wryly notes that in contrast, he had broken into NASA for free.) As one of his hired projects he broke into the Bank of England at age 16.
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government became his client, using his mad technology skills to identify and resolve security holes. (For completeness, Wikipedia and several news publications have noted the government did not confirm Walter’s hack - but we can also note the NSA has never confirmed a hack in its 64-year history.) So Walter’s business, Scorpion Computer Services, was born “as a way to stay out of jail,” he quips, but also as a means of turning his nascent talent into a kind of Geek Squad service that could use his analytical skills to solve practical problems. At 13, while other kids were playing sports and video games, he hacked into NASA ’s servers - then administered by the NSA - and stole the blueprints for the Space Shuttle as a lark. On his own, O’Brien studied everything he could find, especially in technology. The result: No autism, but an IQ level beyond genius that left him too bored to play by the rules in traditional school. Suspecting he was autistic, teachers recommended he be tested. The son of an Irish farming family, he got into trouble at school “for asking too many questions.” In an interview before his presentation, O’Brien spoke with me about his long and prosperous relationship with public relations, beginning with the launch of his business, Scorpion Computer Services (and its “think tank for hire” ) 28 years ago at the age of 13.Īs you can imagine, Walter O’Brien - the real-life “Scorpion” character behind the CBS show - doesn’t have a typical past. I met O’Brien last weekend at the Secret Knock event in San Diego - the project of author and creator Greg Reid - where O’Brien both keynoted and stayed afterward to greet each of the 250 attendees who waited hours in line to ask additional questions. (For perspective, Albert Einstein’s IQ was 160). How would you handle PR if you were one of the five smartest people on the planet? Perhaps you could emulate Walter O’Brien, with an IQ of 197. “I got this.” Walter O’Brien has used storytelling - via television - as a way to accomplish PR