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Major Malfunction

IRL Name: 
Adam Laurie
Biography: 

Adam Laurie a.k.a Major Malfunction is a hardware hacker who is the director of Aperture Labs Ltd and the author of RFIDIOt, a python library for RFID. He is one of the goons of DEFCON and served as a quartermaster.

Facts

Author of marc4dasm, an Atmel MARC4 disassembler

Attended DEFCON since DEFCON 5

Author of rompar, a masked ROM optical data extraction tool

During Blackhat 2007, he demonstrated some of his new research on hotel safes in which he opened a hotel safe using only a paperclip and multi tool in under a minute.

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References

https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-goons.html

https://github.com/ApertureLabsLtd

http://aperturelabs.com/tools.html

http://code.google.com/u/fnargwibble/

http://oamajormal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fun-with-masked-roms.html

http://eecue.com/b/726/Black-Hat-2007---Day-2---Adam-Laurie.html