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Chris Buechler

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Chris Buechler
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Chris Buechler is a pfSense developer, co-founder of pfSense, and was project leader from 2004 to July 2016 (no longer works with the project).

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sammantic

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Mohammed Al-Samman
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Mohammed Al-Samman is from Egypt who has worked on the Linux kernel, doing analysis, debugging, and compiling and because of that he became a recipient of a Linux Kernel Guru scholarship from The Linux Foundation. He also built an open source Linux firewall, and a kernel module to monitor power supply electrical current status (AC/DC) by using the Linux kernel notifier.

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silvio

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Silvio Cesare
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Dr Silvio Cesare is an Australian security researcher known for his multiple articles in phrack, talks at numerous security conferences including Defcon and Black Hat Briefings. Silvio is also a former member of w00w00. He is credited with the publication of the first ELF virus for UNIX-like operating systems. His security research includes an IDS evasion bug in the widely deployed Snort software. Silvio holds a PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University and is the cofounder of the security conference BSides Canberra.

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zer0byte

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Bilal Bokhari
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Bilal Bokhari is the creator of S.W.O.R.D project which is an OpenWRT user interface for a DIY disposable pen-test dropbox / hardware similar to Hak5's Packet Squirrel.

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Da Beave

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Champ Clark III
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Champ Clark III aka Da Beave is one of the founding members of Telephreak, an asterisk / VOIP hobbyist group and the Deathrow OpenVMS cluster (which is inactive now so basically he is a former administrator now). Da Beave has authored various security utilities including iWar, tscan/dscan (X.25), and others.

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StankDawg

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David Blake
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David Blake aka StankDawg is the founder of the hacking group Digital DawgPound (DDP) and a long-time member of the hacking community. He is known for being a regular presenter at multiple hacking conferences, but is best known as the creator of the "Binary Revolution" initiative, including being the founding host and producer of Binary Revolution Radio, a long-running weekly Internet radio show which ran 200 episodes from 2003 to 2007.

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Ralf Burger

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Ralf Burger is the author of the book "Computer Viruses: A High-Tech Disease". He presented the Virdem (first file virus for the DOS operating system which he created) model of programs at a meeting of the underground Chaos Computer Club in Germany in 1986. The Virdem model represented the first programs that could replicate themselves via addition of their code to executable DOS files in COM format. Burger is quoted as saying about viruses that "used properly may bring about a new generation of self-modifying computer operating systems".

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noptix

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Levon Kayan
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Levon Kayan a.k.a noptrix is a member of ethical security testers called nullsecurity which was formed in November 2011. He is the author of the following security tools; ap-unlock, Dnsdrdos, dnsspider, ripdc.sh, trixd00r and sshtrix.

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Cyneox

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Victor Dorneanu
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Victor Dorneanu a.k.a Cyneox is a security engineer / application security specialist and former virus writer for Linux. Originally from Romania, he had lived in Germany for roughly 3 years before coding the virus. He is responsible for the viruses Binom, Caline, Nemox, and Nf3ct0r.

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Stefan Kurtzhals

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Stefan Kurtzhals
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Stefan Kurtzhals was born on December 15, 1972 who has created some antivirus programs like SYANBOOT, SSC, SVS, SCRC, SDISK and MEMCHK (the SUSPICIOUS package).He likes to molest virus writers in IRC. When the first macro viruses for Winword poped up 1995, he started to write a heuristic scanner for macro viruses, F/WIN.

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