w00w00
w00w00 (pronounced whoo-whoo) was 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 over 30 active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.[1][3][5]
The following is a list of some of w00w00's participants:
- Christopher Abad[6]
- Josha Bronson - Director of Security at Yammer[1]
- Silvio Cesare
- Matt Conover - the founder of the group[3][7]
- Michael A. Davis - CTO of CounterTack[1]
- Mark Dowd - co-founder Azimuth Security[1]
- Joshua J. Drake - from Accuvant Labs[1]
- Shawn Fanning
- Jeff Forristal - one of the first people to document SQL injections[8]
- Mike Freeman
- Simon Roses Femerling - formerly at Microsoft Research[1]
- Jim Geovedi
- Jonathan Katz
- Jan Koum
- Ralph Logan[3]
- Gordon Lyon[1]
- Brian Martin
- David McKay - an early employee at Google and AdMob[1]
- Seth McGann[3]
- David Munson
- Tim Newsham
- Ejovi Nuwere
- Adam O’Donnell - co-founder of Immunet[1]
- Alexander Peslyak
- Niels Provos
- Michael Ridpath
- Andrew Reiter - a researcher at Veracode[1]
- Jordan Ritter
- Dragos Ruiu
- Dug Song - co-founder of Duo Security and Arbor Networks[9]
- Tim Scanlon
- Tim Yardley - researcher in critical infrastructure security[1]
- Anthony Zboralski
Notable companies
A number of well known companies have been established by its participants.[1][3][10][4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "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 c d e f "Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster". Reuters. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Talari Product Page". stuff.co.nz. 2014-03-11. Retrieved 2018-09-04.
- ^ "Interview with Matt Conover (Shok), w00w00 Hacker - Help Net Security". Help Net Security. 1 April 2002. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "How Was SQL Injection Discovered?". www.esecurityplanet.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ Castillo, Michelle (19 April 2017). "How a high schooler hacked into a security company and ended up with a job". CNBC. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
- ^ "A file-trading ship of fools". Salon. 2003-04-22. Retrieved 2014-03-08.