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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.

Dr. Ali Jahangiri is a self-proclaimed security expert and the author of the Live Hacking Linux distribution, another live penetration testing distro. He has registered and pending patents in the area of network security. He conducts more than 1,000 hours training per year in the various subjects in information security and cyber forensics. Moreover, he is included in Attrition.org's security charlatans even though he carries a lot of security certification because of his questionable claims.

Joel Knight is active in the open source community and is a former committer and technical writer for the OpenBSD project where he wrote the bulk of the official user guide for the OpenBSD packet filter firewall system. Joel has been an active UNIX sysadmin since some of the earliest days of Linux and is fluent with Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. He has written a number of scripts for monitoring network infrastructure which he’s made available online under an open source license.

Rob Pike is a Canadian software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He also co-developed the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981. Pike is the sole inventor named in AT&T's US patent 4,555,775 or "backing store patent" that is part of the X graphic system protocol and one of the first software patents.

Erik Naggum was a Norwegian computer programmer recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs and Lisp. Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet discussion groups. He contributed many patches to GNU Emacs from version 19.26 to 20.4. A fan of Common Lisp, he took Emacs Lisp in the direction of Common Lisp. He contributed early support for multiple character sets. He quit over the introduction of MULE to GNU Emacs and for a while maintained a “multi-byte survival kit” for Emacs 20 users who wanted Emacs 19 character set behaviour.

He made significant contributions to RFC 1123, which defines and discusses the requirements for Internet host software, and RFC 2049, which defines electronic information transfer of various binary formats through e-mail.

His premature death was caused by a massive bleeding ulcer, related to ulcerative colitis, which he was diagnosed with about 15 years before his death.

Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer who was born on 1932. He created Unix commands: spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr. He had a good fortune to head the research department at Bell Labs in which Unix was born. While at Bell Labs he is known for working on:

- Languages and compilers: macros, Lisp, PL/I, TMG (a compiler-compiler), regular expressions; influenced Snobol, Altran, C++
- Documentation: making Unix manuals short and accurate
- Stream processing: Unix pipes, classic coroutine sieve, power series
- Storage allocation theory and practice; first conservative garbage collector

David Lorge Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation.

Philip Young a.k.a Soldier of Fortran is a Mainframe hacker, IT security and coding enthusiast. He maintains the Soldier of Fortran Blog (mainframed767.tumblr.com) which is all about mainframe security, links to articles, his tools/scripts and general items.

Fyodor Yarochkin is a security analyst and programmer who is the founder of GuardInfo, a taiwan based security consulting companies. He is a frequent speaker at international security conferences, including BlackHat 2001 HK, BlackHat 2001 Singapore, BlackHat 2002, Ruxcon 2003, XCon 2003 / 2006, HITB 2004 and 2005, Syscan 2005 / 2008, Bellua 2005, HITCon 2006 / 2007, VNSecurity 2007, and DeepSec 2008. He has also published many papers on top security conferences and magazines, including Usenix and Phrack Magazine.

Reverse engineer, fuzzer, and windows kernel guy. Known for speaking at a number of cons and writing Win32.Cleevix.asm, Win32.Ceel.a.asm, Win32.lychan, etc...
Active since 2004~2005