W00w00
w00w00 is a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s.[1][2] 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]
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][4]
The following is a list of some of w00w00's notable participants:
- Christopher Abad
- Don Andrew Bailey
- Marshall Beddoe
- Jonathan Bowie
- Nicolas Brawn
- Evan W. Brewer
- Josha Bronson
- Silvio Cesare
- Luciano Martins
- Daryll Netscher
- Matt Conover
- Mike Davis
- Mike Freeman
- Mark Dowd
- Joshua J. Drake
- Matt Ploessel
- Nicolas Dubée
- Shawn Fanning
- Simon Roses Femerling
- Jeff Forristal
- Jim Geovedi
- Jonathan Katz
- Tim Keller
- Jan Koum
- Kirby Kuehl
- Ralph Logan
- Gordon Lyon
- Brian Martin
- Seth McGann
- David McKay
- Rob Mosher
- Shane Mccauley
- David Munson
- Jeff Nathan
- Anthony Eufemio
- Tim Newsham
- Ejovi Nuwere
- Adam J. O'Donnell
- Alexander Peslyak
- Adam Prato
- Niels Provos
- Anthony Reede
- Andrew Reiter
- Gerardo Richarte
- Jordan Ritter
- Dragos Ruiu
- Tim Scanlon
- Mike Schiffman
- Dug Song
- John Waters
- Blake Watts
- Tim Yardley
- Anthony Zboralski
- Ronald K. Ning
Notable companies
A number of well known companies have been established by its participants.[1][3][5][6]
- Napster
- Cloudmark
- Arbor Networks
- Duo Security
- nmap
- CloudVolumes
- Belua
- Azimuth Security
- Kiku Software
- Ivy Softworks
- CloudVolumes
References
- 1 2 3 "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.
- 1 2 3 "Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster". Reuters. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
- ↑ "Manden der fik os til at tro, at musik skulle være gratis". Politiken. 2009-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
- ↑ "A file-trading ship of fools". Salon. 2003-04-22. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- ↑ "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.
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