Tom Cross (computer security)
{{Short description|American computer security expert (born 1976)}}
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Tom Cross (born 1976), also known as Decius, is an American computer security expert and hacker.
Early life
Cross was born in 1976 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and grew up in Tennessee. His father worked in telecommunications policy and his mother was a Registered Nurse's Assistant. He attended Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee, before attending Georgia Tech in Atlanta, receiving a bachelor's degree in computer engineering.{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Cross|url=http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/|title=Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis|date=September 2006|accessdate=2007-03-08}}{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Cross|url=http://www.georgia-voter.info/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205015542/http://www.georgia-voter.info/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 5, 2004|title=Georgia-Voter.Info|accessdate=2007-03-08}}
Security work
He co-founded the EFGA (Electronic Frontiers Georgia) in 1995. In 1996, he co-founded Computer Sentry Software, known for their award-winning "CyberAngel" software, a laptop anti-theft program. From 1999 to 2000, he was Chief Engineer at Dataway, a computer security firm in San Francisco. From 2000 to 2001 he worked at iAsiaWorks, as the Director of Global Security Engineering. In 2001, he founded Industrial Memetics, which developed the popular collaborative blogging community MemeStreams.{{cite web|url=http://www.industrialmemetics.com/officers.php|title=Executive Officers|publisher=Industrial Memetics|accessdate=2007-10-15}}
Cross has been a speaker at several technology conferences, including PhreakNIC; Summercon; "The First International Hackers' Conference in Seoul Korea" (IS2K); "InternetWorld" in Singapore; and APRICOT, the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies.{{cite web|url=http://www.itoc.usma.edu/Workshop/2007/Program/Speakers/Cross.htm |title=Tom Cross |work=IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop |publisher=Information Technology and Operations Center at West Point |accessdate=2007-10-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915103632/http://www.itoc.usma.edu/workshop/2007/Program/Speakers/Cross.htm |archivedate=September 15, 2007 }} He was also among the attendees at the first ever Def Con. He is known for extensive "rant" essays and speeches on technology and policy.{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Cross|url=http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/ip-activist/msg00002.html|title=IP essay by Decius|accessdate=2007-10-15}}{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/11/5-key-computer-network-security-challenges-for-2013/|author=Cross, Tom|date=December 11, 2012|accessdate=January 19, 2013|work=Forbes|title=5 key computer network security challenges for 2013}} He has also been a co-host on episodes of "Binary Revolution", as a cryptography expert.{{cite web|url=http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php?p=15|title=Episode 58 - Memetics|publisher=Binary Revolution|date=2004-08-17|accessdate=2007-10-15 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071012152547/http://binrev.com/radio/archive.php?p=15 |archivedate = 2007-10-12}}{{cite web|url=http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php?viewid=149|title=Episode 148 - Rainbow Tables|publisher=Binary Revolution|date=2006-05-16|accessdate=2007-10-15 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070607152627/http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php?viewid=149 |archivedate = 2007-06-07}}
Writing
- [https://archive.today/20130102144905/http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/fight-censorship-announce/msg05103.html "An open letter to PFIR on "Whois" privacy"], Politech listserv, June 24, 2004
- [http://www.circleid.com/posts/dns_whois_barking_up_the_wrong_tree/ "DNS WHOIS: Barking up the wrong tree"], CircleID, June 28, 2004
- [http://www.circleid.com/posts/answers_from_vint_cerf_on_top_level_domains/ "The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains"], Vint Cerf answers three of Tom's questions in an interview, CircleID, March 13, 2006
- [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1132498&jmp=abstract&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=72195528&CFTOKEN=8094291 "Academic freedom and the hacker ethic"], Communications of the ACM, June 2006.
- [http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1400/1318 "Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis"], First Monday, September 2006.
References
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External links
- [http://www.memestreams.net/users/decius Decius's page at MemeStreams]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060105155940/http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php?p=5 Binary Revolution]
- [http://www.industrialmemetics.com Industrial Memetics Institute]
- [http://www.phreaknic.info PhreakNIC] technology conference
- [http://www.memestreams.net MemeStreams] Weblog Community
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