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5.3 Security experts

• Solar Designer -- Founder of the Openwall Project .
• Fyodor -- The author of Nmap.
• Johan "Julf" Helsingius -- Operated the world's most popular anonymous remailer, the Penet remailer (called penet.fi), until he closed up shop in September 1996.
• Tsutomu Shimomura -- Shimomura helped catch Kevin Mitnick, the United States' most infamous cracker, in early 1994. He is the co-author of a book about the Mitnick case, Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It (BooksEnthsiast.com).
• Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) -- prominent security researcher.

5.4 Hacker media personalities

• Eric Corley (a.k.a Emmanuel Goldstein) -- Long standing publisher of and founder of the H.O.P.E. conferences. He has been part of the hacker community since the late 70's.

5.5 Other notable characters

• Eric S. Raymond -- He is one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative. He wrote the famous text The Cathedral and the Bazaar and many other essays. He also maintains the Jargon File for the Hacker culture, which was previously maintained by Guy L. Steele, Jr..
• Bruce Perens -- He is also one of the Open Source Initiative. He was the former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, and is the primary author of the Open Source Definition.

6 See also

• Hacker culture
• Hacker Emblem
• Hacker Manifesto
• Hackers (short stories)
• Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution
• A Hacker History a timeline of events relating to hacking
• List of fictional hackers
• Quick-and-dirty
• Jargon File
• Biohacker
• Astalavista Security Group

7 External links

• The Hacker Dictionary
• The MIT Gallery of Hacks
• Hacker News
• Digital Information Society
• Hacker Shirts & Stickers
• The Jargon File
• The Hacker Emblem
• How To Become A Hacker
• SecureRoot
• Open Source Initiative
• Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters Essay
• Paul Graham's Great Hackers Essay
• WPI Hackers of the '70's

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