[7] He is known for his role in exposing electronic voting machine vulnerabilities as part of the HBO Documentary Hacking Democracy.
"[9] Thompson began his career as a research intern for Microsoft Corporation while working on his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the Florida Institute of Technology, where he completed his degree in 2002.
[22] He is also a contributor to the New York Times,[23] Scientific American[24] and IEEE Security & Privacy magazine.
[2] In 2006, Thompson participated in four hack tests for the nonprofit election watchdog group Black Box Voting.
[27] Two of his tests involved altering election results reports on the Diebold GEMS central tally machines.