W00w00

w00w00 (pronounced whoo-whoo) was a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and 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, including WhatsApp and Napster. ^{[3] [4]}

Participants

The group 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]
• Jonathan Bowie - founding member ^[1]
• Josha Bronson - Director of Security at Yammer ^[1]
• Silvio Cesare
• Matt Conover - a founding member ^{[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
• Simon Roses Femerling - formerly at Microsoft Research ^[1]
• Jeff Forristal - one of the first people to document SQL injections ^[8]
• Michael J. Freeman
• Jonathan Katz
• Jan Koum
• Ralph Logan ^[3]
• Matt Ploessel
• Gordon Lyon ^[1]
• Brian Martin
• David McKay - an early employee at Google and AdMob ^[1]
• Seth McGann ^[3]
• David Munson
• Tim Newsham
• Anthony Eufemio (tymat) - co-founder of Digix and an early Ethereum pioneer (made the first transaction on the Ethereum network and cpp-ethereum contributor) ^{[9] [10]}
• Ejovi Nuwere
• Adam O’Donnell - co-founder of Immunet ^[1]
• Sean Parker
• Alexander Peslyak
• Niels Provos
• Andrew Reiter - a researcher at Veracode ^[1]
• Michael Ridpath
• Jordan Ritter
• Dragos Ruiu
• Tim Scanlon
• Dug Song - co-founder of Duo Security and Arbor Networks ^[11]
• 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] [12] [4]}

• Arbor Networks
• Napster
• nmap
• WhatsApp

References

1. "Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club". TechCrunch . March 2, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
2. "Interview with Matt Conover (Shok), w00w00 Hacker". Help Net Security. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
3. "Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster". Reuters . March 7, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
4. "The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby". Forbes . February 19, 2014. Retrieved March 2, 2014.
5. "Manden der fik os til at tro, at musik skulle være gratis". Politiken. March 15, 2009. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
6. "Talari Product Page". stuff.co.nz. March 11, 2014. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
7. "Interview with Matt Conover (Shok), w00w00 Hacker - Help Net Security". Help Net Security. April 1, 2002. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
8. "How Was SQL Injection Discovered?". www.esecurityplanet.com. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
9. "Foes With Grudge Sludge Drudge". wired.com. September 14, 1999. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
10. "ethereum/webthree-umbrella Contributors". github.com. December 22, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
11. Castillo, Michelle (April 19, 2017). "How a high schooler hacked into a security company and ended up with a job". CNBC. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
12. "A file-trading ship of fools". Salon . April 22, 2003. Retrieved March 8, 2014.

External links

• "w00w00 website". Archived from the original on December 22, 2020.