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Zenofex

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Amir Etemadieh
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Amir Etemadieh, also known as "Zenofex", founded the GTVHacker group. Amir is a regular speaker at the monthly local hacker meetup "AHA" and has been working on the GTVHacker project from its initial start in November 2010. Amir has done independent security research in consumer electronics including the Logitech Revue, Ooma Telo and services such as the 4G Clear Network. Amir enjoys hunting down flaws using both hardware-based and software-based approach with the belief that often times hardware flaws are more commonly overlooked.

GTVHacker's primary goal is to bypass hardware and software restrictions to allow for custom roms and unsigned firmwares to be loaded and used. As of today we have been the only group to produce working exploits on both of the Sony GoogleTV units and the Logitech Revue.

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Reid Fleming

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Reid Fleming
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Retired memeber of the cDc.

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Vincenzo Iozzo

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Vincenzo Iozzo
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A student security researcher at Politchnico di Milano University in Italy who at Black Hat DC 2009 revealed a new attack against Mac OS X where a hacker can launch malicious code into another program's memory space, but not leaving any traces on the hard drive of the victim's Mac.

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Emmanuel Goldstein

IRL Name: 
Eric Corley
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Born in 1959, Emmanuel Goldstein is the founder, editor, and publisher of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. During his time working on the publication, he testified before the US Congress in 1993, lost a legal battle against the MPAA as one of the defendants in Universal VS Reimerdes (Their unsuccessful attempt to squelch DeCSS), was arrested on August 31st 2004 while filming a demonstration against the Republican National Convention for 'disorderly conduct'. (All charges would be dropped in a preliminary hearing.)

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Origin

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Former VP of SOLDIERX after Durandal lost the position and was exiled from the group. After Origin's lack of doing anything productive for the group, it was decided that the VP position should be dissolved and a High Council should be formed. Origin was not included in the high council due to his lack of productivity and opted to move to retirement status in 2009.

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Y0da

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Wrote LordPE, a useful reverse engineering tool.

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WarlockTMM, Lord Apocalypse

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Ewen G.
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Master of DoS, Expert Vxer

- Used the commodore 64.
- Dreams in assembly.

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Weld Pond

IRL Name: 
Chris Wysopal
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Chris Wysopal (also known as Weld Pond) was a member of the high profile hacker think tank, the L0pht.

Weld Pond earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems & Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Weld Pond was the seventh member to join the L0pht. His projects there included L0phtCrack and Netcat for Windows. He was also webmaster/graphic designer for the L0pht's web site, and for Hacker News Network (the first hacker blog). He researched and published security advisories on vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Lotus Domino, Microsoft IIS, and ColdFusion. Weld was one of the seven L0pht members who testified before a Senate committee in 1998 that they could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes. When L0pht was acquired by @stake in 1999, he became the manager of @stake's Research Group and later became @stake's Vice President of Research and Development. In 2004, when @stake was acquired by Symantec, he became its Director of Development.

Weld was instrumental in developing industry guidelines for disclosing a software security vulnerability responsibly. He was a contributor to the first vulnerability disclosure policy, RFPolicy. In 2002, along with Steve Christey of MITRE, he proposed an IETF RFC titled "Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process". The process was eventually rejected by the IETF as not within their purview. However, the process did become the foundation for Organization for Internet Safety, an industry group bringing together software vendors and security researchers, of which Weld Pond was a founder. In 2003 he testified before a United States House of Representatives subcommittee on the topic of vulnerability research and disclosure.

In 2001, he founded the non-profit, full disclosure mailing list, VulnWatch, for which he is a moderator.

He is presently the co-founder and CTO of Veracode, a spin-off from Symantec.

In April 2008 he married Debra Kavaler, who works in New York real estate.

In 2008, Chris was recognized for his achievements in the IT industry by being named one of the 100 Most Influential People in IT by eWeek and selected as one of the InfoWorld CTO 25.

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Portwolf

IRL Name: 
Skyler (Full name removed by RaT at request of Portwolf [identity verified])
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Portwolf was well known for running the now defunct portwolf.com. He joined SOLDIERX in 2000 and wrote The Truth Behind Soldierx, a document responsible for bringing more people to the SOLDIERX community than any other txtfile. He also went on a website defacing spree that got national press. He officially retired from SOLDIERX in 2009.

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Priest

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Priest is one of the organizers for the annual Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas, NV.

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