Hobbit

Biography: 

*Hobbit* is the original developer of the venerable Netcat (nc) in 1996. The original nc contained a simple port scanner. The clearest definition of Netcat is from *Hobbit* himself: a simple "utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocols.

Facts

He was backdooring backdoors to track break-ins in some systems while writing netcat.

Rumors

According to Mudge, "Hobbit is a genuinely nice, decent, and inclusive person."

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