Matt Warman

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There are too many Unanswered Questions about Boris Johnson , the friendship with the US entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri .

for the last Two Days , I examined One of the most bizarre of them: who is your UK-based media manager, and she is even real were have?

In September, announced given by the government to provide a check in the amount of £100.000, to the Ms Arcuri companies.

Hacker house the sum in February as part of a Fund to increase the "diversity and number of people employed in the UK boom has been awarded the cyber security industry".

It so far is £47,000.

One of The Questions MPs want to assess is the extent of The Company 's connections to the UK. The Fund was intended for UK registered companies only.

Digital and broadband minister, Matt Warman told MPs in September, the Hacker had a British phone number. But several people, including Labour shadow culture Secretary, Tom Watson pointed out that calls to this number were not answered by someone in California.

raised Now were questions, about The Company 's employees are demanding, based in the UK.

At a hearing in front of the Digital, culture, media and Sport Committee on Wednesday, Paul Farrelly , a Labour MP on The Committee , said that after The Professional networking site LinkedIn, The Company 's media manager, someone named "Annie' T was".

But he said that after the investigation, it was revealed that Annie's profile picture was actually a stock image from a Pinterest page of business women provides ideas for head shots.

Secretary of state for education Nicky Morgan said the review would be The Evidence "with interest".

So, who is "Annie ' T'?

Shortly after the meeting, I sent Annie a message asking for an interview. I have not heard. But I soon receive a request to connect with someone called "Annie Tacker" on LinkedIn.

Now I had a family name. But a search in different databases, No One showed up with this name, resident in the UK, despite her profile stating she lived in Cheshire.

a short time later, Annie published a bizarre post on Linkedin that claimed that they had been "outed" in The House of Commons.

"As a transitional woman, it's nobodies (sic) thing, But to me, what I posted on The Internet ," she wrote. "The homophobic, the discuss should the British government on important issues, instead of questioning my gender and identity!"

The post was later deleted and replaced by another, including The Line : "I Am quite real, more real than you'll ever be and more woman than he'll ever have!"

I had noticed that her profile picture had Changed - But something about the photo was still not right.

A colleague tipped me off that it is worth investigating if the photo was artificially created online. This work by bringing together different elements from a large database of different faces to a completely new, artificially created photos.

I wrote to the computer-science expert, Prof Dr. Hany Farid at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the analysis of digital images.

He said the picture in Annie ' T ' s LinkedIn profile contain "some of the tell-tale signs" of synthesized.

He is said to be the jewelry to her right ear misformed seemed "" and there was no jewelry on her left ear.

your right pupil seemed to be larger than to the left of her, he added, and that "failures of symmetry and streaking artifacts", often used in AI synthesis content.

"This is, of course, does not mean that The Image is definitely manipulated, But it raises suspicion," he added.

When Annie ' s photo was doubtful, there was other evidence of your LinkedIn profile that raised questions.

Under the education section, she had written that she had a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, said she studied there between 2009 and 2013. This would make them a particularly well-qualified media manager for a tech company.

But if I have written to you to check WITH said that there is no record of anyone with the name Annie Tacker after a student.

of course, it is possible that Annie may have Changed their name since then.

But had now Changed Prof Farid Annie discovered ' s profile. Now, She Said , she had studied at the King Mongkut University of Technology, Thailand, for their studies

I still had not heard back from Annie, so I wrote instead, the Hacker house to ask what she had made of everything I found. I also asked if it would be possible to talk to your elusive UK-employees.

I didn't have to wait long for a response.

Someone called to say that Michael wrote to me that Annie had not been included in a government, the financing of the payments, or as an employee, in each application for funding.

"you should write your story about the young people giggling by the Ministers on the term "penetration testing," he said, and added: "We saw three deputies were able to hide their conversation in the technical terminology, so prove you have discuss no business to-digital industry, and cyber security. "

For the avoidance of doubt, penetration testing, where ethical hackers launch their own cyber attack on a computer system, to check how safe it is.

Michael added that Hacker house", had about 10 full-time employees in the United Kingdom" - Note the use of the Past Tense - and had a handful of support suppliers in South America and Asia.

He said The Company had cancelled a dental assistant, after The Public had called them "to ask 10,000 times" if you live in California.

"if people don't call it Once with insulting and harassing messages, we will begin to have employees answer the phones again," he added.

I wrote back, thanked Michael for his E-Mail But you can ask again if he could confirm if Annie was real and when I speak to could to her. I have not yet heard back.

of course, it could be that Annie Tacker is real, After All , that the photo is real, or that you are just someone, the protection of the identity - doing in the case, I'm sorry.

But the members of the DCMS Committee are likely to want a more definitive answer to this question by the government. It is due at the end of the month.

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Source of news: bbc.com