Philipp Kalweit

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Sven Philipp Kalweit (* 2000 ) is a German entrepreneur, hacker and IT security consultant.

Life

Kalweit grew up in Hanover (according to other sources in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) as the son of a single Filipino mother. At the age of nine he got access to a used PC for the first time , after saving the screen for it with his own resources. Self-taught , he then learned some programming languages such as Python , C or assembly language using books and the Internet and became interested in hacking. A few months after he was allowed to use the computer for the first time, he was able to gain access to coveted avatars by identifying the discount code structure of an online game from a manufacturer of potato chips . In the following years he was able to gain access to confidential documents such as B. Obtain technical drawings from Bombardier and an organizational chart for a bank.

At the age of 14, Kalweit received his first assignment to review and advise the IT security of a private company. Through subsequent appearances at conferences, he became better known in the industry and more orders were created. Two years later he gave a specialist lecture on cybersecurity at the Federal Office for Information Security (another source after he was 14 years old). The result was an unsustainable double burden of school and orders, which is why Kalweit decided to found a company to employ employees. At the age of 16, he applied for early legal capacity and was awarded it as the second youngest in Germany.

At the end of 2017 he founded what is now “Kalweit ITS GmbH”, a company that offers consulting services for everything to do with IT security. With a double-digit number of (partly freelance ) employees, the company is now based in Hamburg on the Esplanade . According to its own statements, the company tries to be cheaper than the competition or to be accessible to many customers with its prices, but never uses a standardized approach to the penetration tests. According to media reports, the company advises a large number of companies such as banks , financial service providers and companies in the healthcare sector.

Kalweit also frequently appears as a keynote speaker at specialist and public conferences. Among other things, he appeared at the Re: publica , TINCON and the 31C3 . According to his own statements, he would like to change both the image of hackers and the attitude towards IT security.

Kalweit has been a member of Die Linke since he was 16 . The Forbes magazine listed him in 2019 in the annual German list of Forbes 30 Under 30 . Also in 2019 (in February), the Hamburg weekly newspaper Die ZEIT named him “Hamburger of the Month”. Together with Amnesty International , Bitkom , the LKA NRW , the Forum Free Theater and others, he signed the impulse paper in 2017, which was created as part of the BSI project "Digital Society: smart & safe". In the context of media reporting, he is credited as “Germany's most sought-after hacker”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kilian Trotier: Hamburger of the month . In: Die ZEIT Hamburg . No. 06/2019 . Zeit Verlag, Hamburg February 19, 2019 ( ZEIT Online [accessed May 25, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Sebastian Schellschmidt: Germany's most popular hacker . In: FOCUS magazine . No. 26/2018 . Focus Money, Munich July 1, 2018 ( focus.de [accessed on May 25, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Georg Räth: He is 17 and is building a hacker startup. In: gruenderszene.de. Gründerszene Magazin, March 15, 2018, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d David Hanny: Future Hacker . In: Forbes . Vienna April 17, 2019 ( forbes.at [accessed May 25, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b Juliane Kipper: Philipp Kalweit is 18 years old - and a contract hacker. In: n-tv.de. N-tv , December 30, 2018, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Philipp Kalweit. In: re-publica.de. re: publica, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Philipp Kalweit. In: tincon.org. TINCON, accessed on May 26, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Fiona Krakenbürger, Maria Reimer, Philipp Kalweit, Max Nagy, Lukas, Nico: Jugend hackt. In: ccc.de. Chaos Communication Congress , accessed on May 26, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 30 Under 30 - Forbes. In: forbes.at. Forbes Austria, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
  10. ↑ BSI - Press releases of the BSI - BSI project: Impulses for a smart and secure digital society. In: bund.de. Federal Office for Information Security, September 7, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kalweit, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalweit, Sven Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hacker, entrepreneur and IT consultant
DATE OF BIRTH 2000