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Valsmith

IRL Name:

Val Smith

Biography:

Valsmith is a security researcher who has been speaking at conferences since as early as DEFCON 14. He is the CEO and partner at Attack Research, LLC. Valsmith is also a member of Cult of the Dead Cow Ninja Strike Force. His primary areas of expertise are malware analysis and reverse engineering.

Facts

First spoke at DEFCON 14

Active contributor to the Metasploit Framework

Rumors

Is rumored to have said: "One thing to note is that offensive computing is a new group of its own, which is affiliated with cdc. I am the founder of offensive computing."

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References

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/val-smith/

https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-speakers.html#Valsmith

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3625351/Hacking+The+Dead+Cow...

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Devolish

IRL Name:

Nina Stankiewicz

Biography:

One of the members of the cult of the dead cow. Devolish is also one of the members of the Ninja Strike Force. Known for her artistic abilities.

Facts

She is very artistic.

Rumors

Still very active in the cDc community.

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References

http://www.devolish.org

Deth Vegetable, Deth Veggie

IRL Name:

Eric Skoog

Biography:

The Deth Vegetable is a member of cDc and wrote "Anarchy for Fun and Profit", two documents describing things such as creating pipe bombs from scratch, at a very young age. He also has his own IMDB entry for appearing in things such as Net Cafe and BBS: The Documentary.

Facts

Appeared in an interview with Sir Dystic (see reference 1)

Rumors

Real name is Tod Gemuese according to facebook.

Real name is Luke Barrymore according to cDc archives.

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