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Kingpin

IRL Name: 
Joseph Grand / Joe Grand
Biography: 

Joe Grand is an American electrical engineer, inventor and hardware hacker known in the hacker community as Kingpin. He achieved mainstream popularity after his appearance on Prototype This!, a Discovery Channel television show. He specializes in, "finding security flaws in hardware devices and educating engineers on how to increase the security of their designs".

He was a member of L0pht until its merger with @stake. Along with the rest of L0pht, He testified before Congress on May 19th, 1998, that they could shut down the internet in 30 minutes.

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