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Steve Gibson

IRL Name: 
Steve Maury Gibson
Biography: 

Steve Gibson is a computer programmer and a self-proclaimed security researcher who is the founder of Gibson Research Corporation, which is best known for its SpinRite software. Gibson has had a very long career in the technology field; his resume lists jobs he had held back to the age of 13. Coincidentally, his website was taken down with DDoS by a 13-year-old on May 4th, 2001. He began in hardware projects but moved more toward software development in the 1980s. One of his early successes during this period was a light pen graphics system for the Apple II.

In some professional security circles, he is not considered a reputable security professional, rather more of a snake oil salesman peddling third-rate software with bold claims. While many of his claims are a bit outlandish or bold, few, if any, are demonstrably false. He is also included in Atrrition.org's security charlatans.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Gibson_(computer_programmer)

Sidu Ponnappa

IRL Name: 
Sidu Ponnappa
Biography: 

Sidu is the CEO and a co-founder of RubyMonk, an online education platform. Before RubyMonk, he was a co-founder first at Inactiv Labs, and then C42 Engineering where he grew the business to a million dollar run rate in 24 months.

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Simon Tatham

IRL Name: 
Simon Tatham
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Simon Tatham is an English software engineer and free-software author who is known for creating and maintaining PuTTY. He is also known as the original author of Netwide Assembler (NASM).

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Stephen Wolfram

IRL Name: 
Stephen Wolfram
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Stephen Wolfram was born on August 29, 1959 in London, England, UK. He is a British scientist who is known worldwide as the creator of Mathematica (a widespread computational software) and Wolfram Alpha (a knowledge engine).

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schiz0id

IRL Name: 
Richard Robinson
Biography: 

schiz0id (Richard Robinson) is the owner and maintainer of elite-hackers.com. The site is intended as a joke.

http://www.elite-hackers.com was launched on June 16, 2007 in order to trick people into thinking that they were learning how to hack computer network and websites (and it has worked pretty well). It quickly gained popularity and was receiving a substantial number of hits. It was down from early January 2008 to April 1st 2008 due to a hardware failure. schiz0id signed up for web hosting, and now the site is building up traffic once again.

The entire site was made to make fun of the idiot kid who schiz0id was like when he was 12. He always wanted to "learn to hack," and it took him like a year to learn that it wasn't anything like that. Yet, everyone like that at the time had their stupid Angelfire account with a black background and lime green text who thought they were Neo from the Matrix since they could "program" in HTML.

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Spender

IRL Name: 
Brad Spengler
Biography: 

Wrote grsecurity - an innovative approach to security utilizing a multi-layered detection, prevention, and containment model. It is licensed under the GPL. He is also well known for writing various Linux kernel exploits and for having heated debates with the open source community over the way they handle security issues in Linux.

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Steve Bellovin

IRL Name: 
Steve Bellovin
Biography: 

Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. Currently a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is one of the originators of USENET. He, along with Michael Merritt invented the encrypted key exchange authenticated key agreement methods.

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