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Michael J. Assante

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Michael J. Assante
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Michael J Assante was a recognized security and infrastructure protection visionary and a new product development leader

Mr. Assante was a vice president and Chief Security Officer at American Electric Power one the largest generator of electric power in the US known today
before he became vice president assante was a reserve naval intelligence officer. He was also responsible for protecting and maintaining corporate facilities, critical operating assets and property; and ensured the security and continued preservation of all corporate information and proprietary data and the technology that supports it.

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Sandy Clark
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Sandy Clark has been taking things apart since the age of two, and still hasn't learned to put them back together. Luckily, in the University of Pennsylvania's Distributed Systems Lab, this behavior is actively encouraged. A founding member of Toool-USA, she also enjoys puzzles, toys, Mao (the card game, not the person) and infrastructure hacking. Her research explores human scale security and the unexpected ways that systems interact.

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Jacob Appelbaum
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A former member of the cDc and a self-described "hacktivist", he is an independant computer security hacker and co-founder of the hackerspace Noisebridge. Known for his research into Cold Boot Attacks on encrypted systems in order to retrieve keys stored in DRAM, and for identifying a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure allowing the creation of rogue Certification Authority certificates trusted by all common web browsers. He is a security specialist for non-profit/NGO organizations and has worked with Greenpeace, The Open Society Institute, Tactical Tech, The Ruckus Society, The Rainforest Action Network and others.

In 2016, he was accused of harassing, plagiarizing, humiliating, and abusing (sexually, emotionally, and physically) by a number of people on http://jacobappelbaum.net. His response was that the allegations are part of a concerted strategy to damage his reputation.

In response to the allegations the Cult of the Dead Cow, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Noisebridge ended their association with him. The Chaos Computer Club announced that he was no longer welcome. Appelbaum's Berlin apartment was painted with graffiti in the form of an epithet historically used by U.S. feminists in the 1970s to mark the homes of alleged sexual abusers.

Caleb James DeLisle has created a GitHub project named 'JakeGate' (https://github.com/cjdelisle/JakeGate/) that documents allegation against Jacob Appelbaum, breaks the accusations out into categories, and provides a timeline.

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John Glaze
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Is mentioned as a member of the corelan team currently

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Ronald van den Heetkamp
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At one point, ran a blog known as 'The Hacker Webzine' and amongst his work includes unveiling information about a vulnerability in Firefox 2.0.0.12 mere hours after its release. Most recently has accused SoldierX of hacking and listing him in zf05.

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Paul Baran

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Paul Baran
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Born on April 29, 1926, he developed the concept of packet-switched networks with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock.

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Martin Hellman

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Martin Hellman
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Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle.

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Whitfield Diffie

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Whitfield Diffie
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Born June 5th, 1944, Diffie is a cryptographer best known for inventing public key cryptography in cooperation with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle in 1976.

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Phil Zimmermann

IRL Name: 
Phillip R. Zimmermann Jr.
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Born in Camden, New Jersey and currently residing in the San Fransisco area, Zimmermann created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and released it with it's source code on public FTP for download in 1991. The customs service would conduct a criminal investigation against him for possible violation of the Arms Export Control Act as at that point in time cryptographic software was consider a munition. When the government dropped it's case without indictment in 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc.

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Marc Andreessen

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Marc Andreessen
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Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, Andreessen co-authored Mosaic, the first widely used web browser and founded Netscape Communications Corporation. The success of Netscape would eventually gain Microsoft's attention, resulting in the creation of Internet Explorer and jump starting the Browser Wars.

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