I actually worked for two summers at Interhack, so I found it interesting to see a link to their site here. The founder (Matt Curtin) is a really cool guy who t

I actually worked for two summers at Interhack, so I found it interesting to see a link to their site here. The founder (Matt Curtin) is a really cool guy who teaches a Lisp course for one quarter a year at OSU (that's how I got the job). Matt had a hand in cracking the DES and wrote a book about it called Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard. Unfortunately, Interhack does a lot of computer forensic stuff that has human-intensive requirements. Because of his work, Matt is considered an expert for the purposes of court testimony, and he spends much of his time working on and testifying in computer forensic evidence cases, rather than hacking in Lisp as I'm sure he would prefer to be doing. Don't get me wrong... his company is doing great. They just got an entire floor in a 12-story office building built to their specifications, they worked on a high-profile case last year for the state of Ohio lost tape archive incident, and they have somewhere around ten full-time employees. I just wish he (and the company itself) had some time to show off his programming chops in something other than internal software.