Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith (* 6. March 1983 in Birmingham , Alabama , USA) is an American hacker and scientists, for the first time in 2003 because of an action of Blackboard Inc. was announced. He has published books and articles in artificial life magazine and lectures.
biography
Griffith was born the first of two children to a doctor couple. He graduated from the Alabama School of Math and Science and finished it in 2002. He then began studying cognitive science at the University of Alabama . In 2004 he moved to Indiana University .
Griffith lectured at the Interz0ne , PhreakNIC and HOPE hacker conferences . At Interz0ne 1 in 2001 he met Billy Hoffman , a hacker from Georgia who had discovered a security hole in the magnetic ID cards ("BuzzCards") on the student campus there. Griffith and Hoffman found out more about this security breach the following year and decided to give a talk about it at Interz0ne2 in April 2003. A few hours before the presentation, this lecture was prohibited by an injunction . Two days later, Blackboard Inc. filed a lawsuit on the grounds that both had stolen trade secrets and violated the DMCA and the espionage laws of 1917 . The lawsuit was later dropped.
Virgil Griffith is the developer of the WikiScanner software tool.
After studying cognitive science at Indiana University, Griffith is now studying at the elite California Institute of Technology (Caltech). At the same time he works as a guest at the Santa Fe Institute in research and gives lectures.
In December 2019, he was arrested at Los Angeles Airport. He was accused of giving lectures on money laundering with crypto currencies in North Korea and of violating sanctions.
literature
- Virgil Griffith, Markus Jakobsson: "Messin 'with Texas: Deriving Mother's Maiden Names Using Public Records" (PDF; 201 kB), School of Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-26223-7
- Virgil Griffith, Larry Yaeger: “Ideal Free Distribution in Agents with Evolved Neural Architectures. A-Life 10 Conference. "MIT Press, 2005.
- Griffith is one of the editors (as "Virgil G") in: The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms , 2006, ISBN 0-7867-1726-2
- Two articles in: Phishing and Counter-Measures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft , ISBN 0-471-78245-9
swell
- ^ Blackboard Gets Gag Order Against Smart-Card Hackers . In: Washington Post , April 17, 2003. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA . In: Electronic Frontier Foundation , April 2006. Archived from the original on February 6, 2006. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
- ^ Andrea L Foster: At Blackboard's Request, Judge Prevents Students From Discussing Security of Debit-Card System , The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 16, 2003. Archived from the original on February 6, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2007.
- ↑ John Borland: See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign , Wired . August 14, 2007.
- ↑ "folk hero" sometimes have strange bedfellows
- ^ Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles: Acknowledgments . Retrieved August 14, 2007.
Web links
- Virgil Griffith's homepage
- Griffith's Seminar Abstract ( February 26, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ), Santa Fe Institute, Monday, August 22, 2005
- Binary Revolution webcast ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), May 17, 2005, Episode 96 - Google Mining ( Memento from February 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), 1: 30h, 15.47 MB
- The copyright cops strike again , Salon , April 15, 2003
- Blackboard Campus IDs: Security Thru Cease & Desist , Slashdot , April 14, 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griffith, Virgil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Novel poet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American hacker and scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham , Alabama |