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Anon Hunter, AnonChaos Draddy

IRL Name: 
William Draddy
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Anon Hunter a.k.a AnonChaos Draddy is a self-proclaimed snitch who has been identifying Anonymous members and supporters with phone calls to law enforcements.

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Nadim Kobeissi

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Nadim Kobeissi
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Born in 1990 and currently based in Montreal, Canada, Kobeissi is best known for creating the Cryptocat chat software. Currently, he works as the OpenITP Special Advisor at the New America Foundation.

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Fabrice Bellard

IRL Name: 
Fabrice Bellard
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Fabrice Bellard is a computer programmer who is the founder and creator of ffmpeg, qemu projects and once a world record holder of holding the most number of digits found in pi. He has also developed a number of other programs, including the Tiny C Compiler.

Fabrice Bellard's entries won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice: In 2000, he won in the category "Most Specific Output for a program that implemented the modular Fast Fourier Transform and used it to compute the then biggest known prime number, 2^6972593-1; and in 2001, he won in the category "Best Abuse of the Rules" for a tiny compiler (the source code being only 3KB in size) of a strict subset of the C language for i386 Linux. The program itself is written in this language subset, i.e. it is self-hosting.

In 2011, he created a minimal PC emulator written in pure JavaScript. The emulated hardware consists of a 32-bit x86 compatible CPU, a 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller, a 8254 Programmable Interrupt Timer, and a 16450 UART.

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Paul Allen

IRL Name: 
Paul Allen
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Paul Allen is an American inventor, computer programmer, investor and philanthropist, best known as the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft Corporation. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which manages his various business and philanthropic efforts. Hismemoir Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft was released on April 19, 2011.

He came up with the original name of "Micro-Soft," as recounted in a 1995 Fortune magazine article. In 1980, after promising to deliver IBM a Disk Operating System (DOS) they had not yet developed for the Intel 8088-based IBM PC, Allen spearheaded a deal for Microsoft to purchase a Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS) written by Tim Paterson who, at the time, was employed at Seattle Computer Products. As a result of this transaction, Microsoft was able to secure a contract to supply the DOS that would eventually run on IBM's PC line. This contract with IBM was the watershed in Microsoft history that led to Allen and Gates' wealth.

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JJ Allaire

IRL Name: 
Joseph J. Allaire
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Joseph J. Allaire is the creator of ColdFusion Application Server, ColdFusion Markup Language. He co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. In March 2001, Allaire Corporation was sold to Macromedia where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line. Macromedia was subsequently acquired by Adobe Systems, which continues to develop and market ColdFusion.

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Richard Adams

IRL Name: 
Richard Adams
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Richard Adams is an independent inventor and engineer. His first project was the construction of a video camera that he started building when he was ten years old and got working at age 12 in 1967. He worked entirely at home without the aid of his school. It originally gained coverage in the Miami Herald when he had enlisted the newspaper’s help to find a TV station that would help him tune the camera. In 1974, whilst attending Florida Institute of Technology, Adams created an interface and software to connect an electronic organ to a computer so he could record and playback entire musical scores with full polyphony.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adams_(inventor)

Leonard Adleman

IRL Name: 
Leonard Max Adleman
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Leonard Max Adleman is an American theoretical computer scientist who is one of the co-inventors of the RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing. RSA is in widespread use in security applications, including https. For his contribution to the invention of the RSA cryptosystem, Adleman, along with Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir, has been a recipient of the 1996 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award and the 2002 ACM Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of Computer Science.

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Frisk

IRL Name: 
Friðrik Skúlason
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Friðrik Skúlason is the founder of FRISK Software International, an Icelandic software company that develops F-Prot antivirus and F-Prot AVES antivirus and antispam service. He is also one of the founding members of CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization). He originally developed F-Prot AntiVirus while doing computer support work.

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Pavel Baudiš

IRL Name: 
Pavel Baudiš
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Pavel Baudiš is one of the co-founders of AVAST Software(formerly ALWIL Software) together with Eduard Kučera. In 1988, He wrote the original software program from which the current portfolio of security solutions has developed of Avast AV. Prior to co-founding Avast, Mr. Baudiš was a graphics specialist at the Czech Computer Research Institute (VUMS). He holds an M.S.c. in Information Technology from the Prague School of Chemical Engineering.

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Happy Hacker

IRL Name: 
Carolyn Meinel
Biography: 

Carolyn Meinel's books and website, called The Happy Hacker, are dedicated to a style known as script kiddie hacking. Some security experts, such as Brian Martin of Attrition, have criticized her writings, claiming that they are inaccurate and generally misrepresent hacking. She is also listed in Attrition.org's security charlatans.

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