Oxblood Ruffin
IRL Name:
Laird Brown
Biography:
Oxblood Ruffin a member of the hacker group CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), for which he serves as "Foreign Minister." He is also the founder and executive director of Hacktivismo, an off-shoot of cDc. Ruffin is active in human rights causes and is a vocal proponent of hacktivism, a term which he has helped to define. He has participated in both technology and human rights conferences, both on his own and along with cDc.
Ruffin is also an infrequent contributor to both the cDc blog and the Hacktivismo News blog.
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