 Dave Buchwald, on the set of Urchin, July 2005. Dave Buchwald (once known Bill From RNOC), b. 4 September 1970, was a hacker and leader of the Legion of Doom in the mid-1980s. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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This rendering of a likeness of grey hat hacker Adrian Lamo highlights the mystique surrounding hackers in the context of issues of right and wrong in the digital age. ...
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At his peak, Dave was one of the country's top social engineers (see Social engineering (security)), with the ability to manipulate phone system employees virtually anywhere in the United States. In addition, he had a very high level of hacking skill with regard to Bell and AT&T systems (specifically COSMOS, SCCS, and LMOS), which allowed him virtually unrestricted access to phone lines, including the ability to monitor conversations, throughout the country. He was extremely respected, and even a bit feared, within the hacker community. Many of his original gambits are still in use by social engineers today. One time, Dave was rumored to have brought down the Boston transit system using his infamous "Man who lost his hat" gambit. [citation needed] It has been suggested that Physical Information Security be merged into this article or section. ...
He served as a mentor to many other notable hackers of the era, including Control C, a well-known Legion of Doom hacker-cum-security consultant from Michigan.
In 1995, Dave served as a technical consultant to the movie Hackers. While the film is panned by some actual hackers as being inaccurate and sensationalized, the anecdotal hacker sequences in the film, as well as the mannerisms and attitudes of the main characters, are patterned after many of the hackers he associated with from the New York City area. Hackers is a 1995 film that follows the misfortunes of the young hackers Dade Murphy (Crash Override/Zero Cool, played by Jonny Lee Miller), Kate Libby (Acid Burn, played by Angelina Jolie) and their friends. ...
Later, in 1997, he co-founded Crossbar Security with Phiber Optik and Andrew Brown. Crossbar provided info security services for a number of large corporations during its short life, during which the principles conducted business in the U.S., Japan, Brazil, and Sweden. As a result of the "dot com" bust, Crossbar ultimately went defunct in 2001, largely due to cuts in corporate security spending and the vast increase of corporate computer security advertising budgets. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dave is currently working as a film editor and freelance photographer in New York City. He is known for his highly original cover art for 2600 Magazine He has recently completed (in August of 2006) his first feature film, Urchin (film) and is in development with KURU (film) the second movie by The Enemy and Love Simple (film) a film by Mark vonSternbeg. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City...
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URCHIN is a fictional film about a homeless boy living in an NYC underground mole people community called Scum-City. ...
The Enemy may refer to: The Enemy (TNG episode), a third season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation The Enemy (novel) is also the name of a 1987 novel by French writer Robert Pinget. ...
He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his fiance, a dog named Bisbee, a 3-legged cat, and 13 fish.
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