W00w00
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w00w00 is a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s.[1][2][unreliable source?] Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies. The two most famous examples are WhatsApp, the messaging service, and Napster, the pioneering file-sharing company.[3][4]
Participants
The official website, explicitly states "there are no 'members'" only participants, which at one point included 30+ active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.[1][3][5]
References
- ^ a b "Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club". TechCrunch. 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ "Interview with Matt Conover (Shok), w00w00 Hacker". Help Net Security. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
- ^ a b "Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster". Reuters. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ^ "The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby". Forbes. 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
- ^ "Manden der fik os til at tro, at musik skulle være gratis". Politiken. 2009-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-06.