Charles Edge | |
|---|---|
| Edge on September 18, 2009 | |
| Born | |
| Died | April 19, 2024 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Georgia |
| Years active | 1998–2024 |
| Children | 2 |
Charles Edge was an American computer scientist, author, [1] podcaster, [2] and a contributing author for Inc.com [3] and Huffington Post. [4]
Edge spent 15 years as the Chief Technology Officer [5] of 318 Inc [6] in Santa Monica and 5 years at Jamf. [7] At the time of his death, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Bootstrappers.mn [8] and HandrailUX. [9] Edge spoke at Defcon, [10] Blackhat, [11] LinuxWorld, [12] MacSysAdmin, [13] and a number of other conferences.
Edge died on April 19, 2024. [14]
Edge maintained the following podcasts:
Edge worked on a number of open source projects including precache, swift-ldif-csv, and jssimporter [17] and served on the board of directors of Tamarisk [18] and on the corporate council of the Guthrie Theater.
Edge spoke at Black Hat 2007 and was scheduled to give a speech on a vulnerability of the Mac OS X FileVault at Black Hat 2008 but the talk was pulled after he cited a non-disclosure agreement the talk would violate. [19] The talk was later disputed having ever existed. [20]
Edge wrote the SANS course on Mac OS X Security in 2007, establishing baseline security practices for Apple and IoT [21] devices in large-scale environments. [22]
Edge founded the Minnesota non-profit Minnesota Computer History Museum in January 2020. [23]
Edge was on the Editorial team for the Apple Inc. platform, with Apress. Edge was also the technical editor for the following title(s):
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