Seth Schoen

Seth David Schoen (born September 27, 1979) is staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil rights organisation, and has been actively involved in discussing digital copyright law and encryption since the 1990s. He is an expert in trusted computing and is rumored to be writing a book on the subject.

In February, 2008, Schoen collaborated with a research group [http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/] led by Edward Felten that discovered a vulnerability of DRAM that undermined the basic assumptions of computer encryption security. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/technology/22chip.htm] In October, 2005, Schoen led a small research team at EFF to decode the tiny tracking dots hidden in the printouts of some laser printers. [http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063]

Schoen previously worked for Linuxcare, where he developed the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card. After he left Linuxcare, he forked the project to create the LNX-BBC rescue system, of which he is a lead developer. Before that, while attending UC Berkeley, he founded Californians for Academic Freedom to protest the loyalty oath the state made university employees swear. He never completed his degree.

Schoen has recently admitted that he is the author of the DeCSS haiku; the haiku was submitted through an anonymous remailer.

Schoen was formerly a board member and the Secretary of the Peer-Directed Projects Center, a Texas-based non-profit corporation. He stepped down in November 2006.

Schoen's father, Ken, is the proprietor of Schoen Books, a specialty bookshop located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Seth attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts from 1993-1997.

External links

* [http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ Personal homepage]
* [http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ Vitanuova, Seth's weblog]
* [http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_291215551.html "Computer Printers Track Users"] , CBS 5 News, October 18, 2005
* [http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt DeCSS haiku]
* [http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/haiku.html The History of the DeCSS Haiku]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19990427075104/www.loyalty.org/ Californians for Academic Freedom (archived)]
* [http://www.schoenbooks.com/ Schoen Books]