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Meredith Patterson

IRL Name: 
Meredith L. Patterson
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Meredith L. Patterson is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist who has presented research with Dan Kamisky and Len Sassaman at many international security and hacker conferences. She is heavily involved with the DIYBio movement, and works on transgenic lactic acid bacteria. She presented the Biopunk Manifesto at a UCLA synthetic biology conference, and presented her work with Dan Kaminsky and Len Sassaman on breaking the Internet's certificate authority system (by creating usable, bogus certificates crafted to exploit ambiguity in X.509 parsing implementations using language-theoretic security analysis principles) at the Financial Cryptography 2010 conference.

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Kristin Paget

IRL Name: 
Chris Paget / Kristin Paget
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Kristin Paget formerly known as Chris Paget is a transgender and hardware hacker who lives in Silicon Valley. Exploits and accomplishments to his/her name include a $250 device capable of cloning passport RFID tags at a distance, as well as a device to match the random channel-hopping systems used in GSM -- allowing for extended monitoring of the communications protocol. In 2010, he/she set up a spoof GSM base station at the DefCon security conference, warning users that by connecting to the station, the user's security had been breached. While working for Microsoft, a number of critical security failures in the Vista OS was discovered by his/her team, forcing the delayed release of the operating system.

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Ivan Krstic

IRL Name: 
Ivan Krstić
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Ivan Krstić is a Croatian computer security expert who is the former director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child where he designed the Bitfrost security architecture for the XO Laptop.

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Jack Dennis

IRL Name: 
Jack Dennis
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Jack Dennis is a computer scientist and retired MIT professor. He was involved in early work on time-sharing through the PDP-1 which his research group owned at MIT; that hardware later became famous in computer science history as the machine on which hacker culture started. He also sponsored the MIT student-run Tech Model Railroad Club in its early years, where the hacker culture is said to have taken root before spreading to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Later, he was one of the founding members of the Multics project, to which he contributed one of its most important concepts, the single-level memory. Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix.

In his teaching at M.I.T. Prof. Dennis developed six subjects in new areas of computer theory and computer systems: (1) Theoretical Models for Computation. The material developed for this subject was published as a book, Machines, Languages, and Computation, written with former graduate students Peter Denning and Joseph Qualitz. (2) Computation Structures. This was the intial version of the basic computer architecture subject of M.I.T.'s undergraduate curriculum in Computer Science.

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Alan Kotok

IRL Name: 
Alan Kotok
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Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At MIT he became a member of the Tech Model Railroad Club, and after enrolling in MIT's first freshman programming class, he helped develop some of the earliest computer software including a digital audio program and what is sometimes called the first video game Spacewar! and and the gaming joystick. Together with his teacher John McCarthy and other classmates, he was part of the team that wrote the Kotok-McCarthy program which took part in the first chess match between computers.

While at DEC, he was chief architect of the PDP-10 family of computers and a logic designer for the early DEC PDP-6 computer. Later, he became chief architect on the influential DECsystem-10 timesharing computer system and a senior consultant to Digital's Alta Vista project, an early Internet search engine.

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Doug Swanson

IRL Name: 
Doug Swanson
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Doug Swanson is the Vice President of Development at Malwarebytes. Along with CEO and founder Marcin Kleczynski, Doug got his start in online anti-malware communities, helping to keep the malware forces of darkness at bay. He joined Malwarebytes in 2008 and built most of the original technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, including the core scanning engine, kernel-level detection and removal technology, and the realtime protection module.

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Marcin Kleczynski

IRL Name: 
Marcin Kleczynski
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Marcin Kleczynski is the CEO and founder of Malwarebytes. He created Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to address the alarming amounts of malicious threats that were slipping by most major security vendors undetected based on his experience as a technician. The first freeware he created was “About Buster” which cleans a common infection known as About:Blank and that typical anti-viruses at the time could not fix or clean. Then, as he was getting through college, he and his college roommate started writing a utility called RogueRemover. It tackled a specific type of infection known as rogues, which are basically scams to try and steal your credit card information by tricking you into downloading a fake anti-virus software and warning you about a supposed infection that doesn’t really exist. RogueRemover ended up becoming the engine that got Malwarebytes Anti-Malware going.

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Didier Stevens

IRL Name: 
Didier Stevens
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Didier Stevens is an IT security professional and security researcher from Brussels, Belgium who is the founder of Didier Stevens Labs. Didier Stevens Labs provides training, development and research services with a focus on technical IT security. He has developed two simple binary tools; 'reverse' which takes the input file, reverses it (first byte becomes last byte, …) and writes it to a new file and 'middle' which extracts a sequence of bytes from the input file and writes it to a new file. He is known for creating XORsearch, a program to search for a given string in an XOR, ROL or ROT encoded binary file.

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Stefano Fratepietro

IRL Name: 
Stefano Fratepietro
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Stefano Fratepietro is a Computer Forensics and IT Specialist from Italy who is the founder and project leader of DEFT (Digital Evidence & Forensic Toolkit) Linux.

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Rafay Baloch

IRL Name: 
Rafay Baloch
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Rafay Baloch is a Pakistani infosec guy, freelance penetration tester, independent security researcher and blogger who is behind the Rafay Hacking Articles Blog. He gained fame for participating the Paypal Bug Bounty program and discovered Command Execution, Information Disclosure and XSS on Paypal. He was offered a job by Paypal as a Security Ninja (Security Quality Engineer) and a Penetration tester but he refused the job because of his studies.

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