Dildog

IRL Name: 
Christien Rioux
Biography: 

Dildog is now the co-founder and chief scientist of Veracode. He is the main patent holder for Veracode, based in Burlington, Mass. He worked at L0pht Heavy Industries and then at the company @Stake (later bought by Symantec). While at @stake he looked for security weaknesses in software and led the development of Smart Risk Analyzer (SRA). He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool @stake LC (L0phtCrack) and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system.

He is also a member of Cult of the Dead Cow and its Ninja Strike Force. Formerly, he was a member of L0pht and subsequent employee of @stake and Symantec, where he was responsible for many security advisories.

DilDog is best known as the author of the original code for Back Orifice 2000, an open source remote administration tool. He is also well known as the author of "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow."

Facts

Had a "special" unreleased version of Back Orifice

DilDog published his exploit and advisory for the mk:// exploit on Internet Explorer 4 in 1998.

Rumors

Wrote the buttplug system as therapy for the raping he received from John Draper (Captain Crunch) when he was younger

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