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I once hired this guy, whom I'd met at a 2600 meet up at Union Station in LA, to work for me at one of the first web-development agencies in California. I had
by fit2rule 8y ago
I once hired this guy, whom I'd met at a 2600 meet up at Union Station in LA, to work for me at one of the first web-development agencies in California. I had him all set up as a sysadmin doing sysadmin'y things, got him a new SGI machine as requested, sat him in the corner and watched him type away happily, doing web-development/sysadmin'y things.
Little did I know that he was writing his seminal paper in a terminal on the side .. "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" has gone on to be one of the most famous of Phrack articles .. if only I'd known, I would've asked to proof-read it first. ;)
(Likewise: hi @AlephOne!)
- harry8 8y agoWhat has AlephOne been up to since?
- fit2rule 8y agoI guess he's continued his career as a security researcher .. I really don't know. I extricated myself from that company back then and moved on, myself, to other things .. but it always amuses me to remember looking over his shoulder and seeing MIPS assembly up there and wondering "hmm.. what does this have to do with the website we're building, hmm.." ;)
- thelittleone 8y agoAlephOne was CTO of SecurityFocus which was acquired by Symantec back in 2002. He stayed on until 2011 and is now at Cisco. Oh the golden days of #phrack and #2600 in the 90's. Was a teenager armed with a dialup to a BBS with an IRC gateway. The modem so slow I would type lines and wait for the characters to catch up on the screen.