Internet Administrator Jonathan Bruce Postel (6 August 1943 - 16 October 1998) made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for serving as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. Postel attended UCLA, where he earned both his B.S. (1966) and M.S. (1968) in engineering, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1974.
While at UCLA, he was involved in early work on the ARPANET; he later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, where he spent the rest of his career.
Jonathan Littman is an author who is well known for his books about hackers as well as interviews with several hackers (including Robert Morris). He wrote "The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick" and "The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen".
Jonathan Lasser is a self-identified "computer guy" living in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of the book "Think Unix" published by Que Publishing. Previously, he was a Unix Systems Administration, Training, and Security consultant, and Lead Coordinator for the Bastille Linux Project.
Jon is currently a "Staff Sustaining Engineer" at Context Relevant in Seattle.
John Flowers is the author of Linux Security and Linux Enterprise Security published by New Riders and Pearson Education respectively. He also gave a talk at DEFCON 8 entitled "Network IDS - Do Not Bend, Fold, Spindle or Mutilate."
John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet and is a major contributor to the GNU project. Prior to his work at EFF, John worked for Sun Microsystems as one of its first five employees.
He currently owns the domain name toad.com, which is one of the 100 oldest active .com domains. It was registered on August 18, 1987, and serves on the boards of the Usenix Association, Codeweavers, and ReQuest.
Jon "maddog" Hall is a programmer and GNU advocate who was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's Alpha platform when he was still in Digital. It was also in this general timeframe that Hall, who lives in New Hampshire, started the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users' Group. Hall has UNIX as his New Hampshire vanity license plate.
Johan "Julf" Helsingius, born in 1961 in Helsinki, Finland, started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer.
Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected PO box system for sending and receiving e-mails. In the eighties he was the system administrator for the central Finnish news node as well as one of the founding members of the Finnish UNIX User Group.
Currently, Julf is an internet entrepreneur living in Amsterdam.
Founder of the Black Hat and DEF CON computer hacker conferences. Moss is currently based in Seattle, where he works as a security consultant for a company that is hired to test company's computer systems. He's been interviewed on issues including: the internet situation between the United States and China, spoofing and other e-mail threats and the employment of hackers in a professional capability, including in law enforcement.
Dyson was best known for his work as a security consultant with NASA during his life. In addition, he would be known as one of the people who started Coffee Wars at Defcon 8.