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Douglas Engelbart

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Douglas Engelbart
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Best known as the inventor of the computer mouse. Was also involved with developing hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs.

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Shok

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Matt Conover
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Shok is the principal software engineer in the Core Research Group of Symantec Research Labs where he focuses on virtualization, rootkit detection, and malware analysis. He is also the w00w00 group leader. In 1999, he published the world's first Windows heap overflow paper.

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Acidus

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Billy (William) Hoffman
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Hoffman created StripeSnoop, an application which analyzes data on magnetic stripes. He also created tinyDisk, a file system that runs on top of tinyURL. He first became famous when, as a student at Georgia Tech, he discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard." He gave a talk about the security flaw at the Atlanta hacker conference "Interz0ne" in Fall 2002.

At Interz0ne2 in April 2003 he attempted to give an updated version of the talk with Virgil Griffith, a student from the University of Alabama, but he and Griffith were served with a cease and desist letter a few hours before giving the presentation, and then within two days this was followed up by a lawsuit from Blackboard Inc, alleging that Griffith and Hoffman had violated the DMCA, the Espionage and Sedition Act, and that they had stolen trade secrets. The lawsuit was eventually settled.

In 2005, Hoffman graduated from Georgia Tech, with a degree in computer science. He has given talks on multiple subjects at such conferences as Interz0ne, Outerz0ne, Toorcon, Black Hat Federal, PhreakNIC, FooCamp, O'Reilly Media Emerging Technology Conference, and ShmooCon. He was also invited to speak at the FBI.

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Bill Joy

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Bill Joy
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Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and served as the Chief Scientist until 2003. Many people also claim that he was largely responsible for managing the authorship of Berkeley UNIX (BSD). He also created the VI editor, the C shell (csh), and the Network File System protocol.

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Dan Egerstad

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Dan Egerstad
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Swedish computer security consulant who gained access to over 1,000 E-Mail accounts belonging to corporations, human rights organizations, and foreign embassies by intercepting information through 5 exit nodes on the Tor network. After attempting to contact some of the people who's information he gathered, he decided to post passwords to 100 of the E-Mail accounts in an attempt to get people's attention on Tor's security shortcomings in September 2007. On November 13th 2007 Swedish officials raided his house and took him in for questioning in relation to the act. As of February 2009, no charges have been filed against him.

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Muts

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Mati Aharoni
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One of the founders of Remote-Exploit.org

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_MAX_

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Max Moser
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One of the founders of Remote-Exploit.org

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Gerald Combs

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Gerald Combs
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Gerald Combs, a computer science graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the creator and lead developer of Ethereal, now Wireshark, which was first released in 1998. Combs worked for Network Integration Services (NIS) until mid 2006 when he moved to a new job at CACE Technologies. In June 2006, he created Wireshark from the Ethereal codebase. The driving factor in his creating this new project was the inability to come to an agreement with his former employer (which held the Ethereal trademark) to allow him to keep using the trademark. Combs has stated on the Wireshark homepage that he is going to register Wireshark under his own name to prevent this situation from happening again. Combs has also stated "There was no "fight" between NIS and I. Although I'm deeply disappointed about the trademarks, I understand their decision. NIS is a great company and I still hold everyone there in high regard."

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IceBerg

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Brian
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IceBerg is really only known from the Oki 900 FAQ that he released. Not a whole lot is known about him, but there are many rumors.

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Jason Scott, The Slipped Disk, Sketch, SketchCow

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Jason Scott Sadofsky
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Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott is an American weblogger who is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems. He is also the creator of a 2005 documentary film about BBSes, BBS: The Documentary.

In 1990, along with John Anthony Rescigno (who was known by the pseudonym "Trout.Complex"), Sadofsky started TinyTIM, a popular MUSH. He resigned in 2000.

In 1995 Jason joined the video game company Psygnosis as a technical support worker, before being hired by a video game startup, Focus Studios, as an art director. After Focus Studios' closure, Jason moved into UNIX administration, where he has remained.

He has been a speaker at DEF CON, an annual hacker conference, the first time at the 7th conference in 1999, then again in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Scott also spoke at PhreakNIC 6 and 9, Rubi Cons 4 and 5, the 5th H.O.P.E. conference in 2004, Notacons 1, 2 (as a backup), 3 and 4, Toorcon 7, and beta premiered his documentary at the 7th annual Vintage Computer Festival, where his screenings have become an anticipated staple. Most of his talks focus on the capturing of digital history or consist of narratives of stories relevant to his experiences online.

In 2007, he co-founded Blockparty, a North American demoparty. For their inaugural year, they paired up with Notacon which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. This collaborative effort allowed the fledgling party to utilize the existing support structure of an established conference.

He currently resides in Massachusetts, and is filming a documentary about text adventure games, called GET LAMP, as well as a documentary on Arcades, called ARCADE.

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