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Pyr0 is a Senior Contest Goon /Retired Security Goon & reported to be one of the more "serious" hackers that attend defcon. He is promoted to be able to get past any barrier be it physical or software wise to achieve his goal. We believe there may be some exaggeration of this, but he's got a wide range of knowledge in his reported 19 years (as of this writing) worth of experience.

Superpowers: Making things go BOOM, the ability to control large groups of unfriendly people with a single glance, and stealing all your infoz! (I'm in your corporation, bypassin' all your controls!)
Best con moment: I can't legally answer that.
Worst con moment: Realizing that some of the best people I have ever known will never be attending con again. (R.I.P. - PacBell/ P4ntz / Shadow / Ghent)
Favorite con event: Gooning / Drop kicking misbehaving children / 303 Party
PGP Key: on my servers
Introduced by: self
Involved since: DEF CON 6
Contact: pyr0 at pyr0 dot net | Web Page: www.pyr0.net

Vince Tocce, known as VinceintheBay, is said to be a 41 year old, 6’2’ Caucasian male from the SF Bay Area who is known among hackers for hosting the Vince in the Bay Blog Talk Radio Show. He takes pride in himself for influencing Anonymous and hacker communities.

MustLive is the web administrator of Websecurity (websecurity.com.ua) and the creator of DAVOSET, a tool that automates an attack using XML External Entities (XXE) vulnerabilities (WASC-43) for conducting CSRF and DoS attacks on other sites.

Peter Hajas is the iOS Jailbreak App Developer of MobileNotifier, a notification system that resembles Google Android’s in that it seamlessly layers and stacks your mobile notifications on top of running apps.

A few months after the app launched, Hajas blogged that he was taking a "hiatus" from creating jailbreak apps, and then he not-so-subtly tweeted that he was joining a "fruit" company.

KnowledgeUS is the creator of @AnonRelations, IRC Operator in Voxanon and an associate of dmzpkts, CommanderX, ebola, Akira, and many others. He has quit Anonymous after a complex series of events resulted in him losing credibility within the collective. He has moved from the Anonymous to irc.reapersecurity.net IRC server and particularly the #RS-Graveyard channel, a known meeting place for anti-Anonymous people.

He believed that @ihazcandy was actively sabotaging Anonymous through false-flag and entrapment operations and stated that he would develop a new IRC network and provide @ihazcandy with a means of scraping IP addresses from the server in order to identify more about him and other anti-Anonymous people.

Rich Skrenta is the computer virus author of Elk Cloner which was written for Apple II systems in 1982 while he was still a high school student. It is widely believed to be the first large-scale self-spreading personal computer virus ever created. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix. Between 1991 and 1995 he worked at Unix System Labs and from 1996 to 1998 with IP-level encryption at Sun Microsystems. He later left Sun and became one of the founders of the Open Directory Project. He stayed onboard after the Netscape acquisition, and continued to work on the directory as well as Netscape Search, AOL Music and AOL Shopping. After his stint at AOL he went on to cofound Topix LLC, a Web 2.0 company in the news aggregation & forums market. In 2005, he and his fellow cofounders sold a 75% share of Topix to a newspaper consortium made up of Tribune, Gannett, and Knight Ridder.

John Walker is a computer programmer who is the co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk, and a co-author of early versions of AutoCAD. In 1975, he wrote the ANIMAL software which self-replicated on UNIVAC 1100 machines: this is considered to be one of the first computer viruses. ANIMAL asked a number of questions of the user in an attempt to guess the type of animal that the user was thinking of, while the related program PERVADE would create a copy of itself and ANIMAL in every directory to which the current user had access. It spread across the multi-user UNIVACs when users with overlapping permissions discovered the game, and to other computers when tapes were shared. The program was carefully written to avoid damage to existing file or directory structures, and not to copy itself if permissions did not exist or if damage could result. Its spread was therefore halted by an OS upgrade which changed the format of the file status tables that PERVADE used for safe copying. Though non-malicious, "Pervading Animal" represents the first Trojan "in the wild".

Robert Whitney a.k.a Xnite is an infosec guy, tech enthusiast and computer lover who claims to have doxed Nachash.

Nachash is an associate of the Hack The Planet organization. He is also known for contributing to the Encyclopedia Dramatica Wiki, running the doxbin darknet website, and for involving himself with well-known Anonymous hacktivists since at least 2010.

Ph.AnonPyro is a wannabe hacker and script kiddie from Butuan City, Philippines and one of the members of Anonymous Butuan. He is a supporter of the Anonymous Philippines and his handle is given shouts by some deface pages of Filipino hacktivists.