- Elias Levy
Elias Levy (also known as Aleph One), was the moderator of the
full disclosure vulnerability mailing listBugtraq fromMay 14 1996 , until he stepped down onOctober 15 2001 . He was the CTO and co-founder of the computer security companySecurityFocus , which was acquired bySymantec onAugust 6 2002 . He is better known as the author of the article "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit", published in1996 "Phrack " magazine issue 49, which was the first high-quality public step-by-step introduction tostack buffer overflow vulnerabilities and their exploitation.After the sale of
SecurityFocus by Symantec in August 2002, Levy was accused by many of "selling out" and compromising the high principles of the Bugtraq list. The "Full-Disclosure" mailing list was founded in part as a protest to the sale.External links
* [http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=49&id=14#article "Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit"] from 'Phrack' magazine
* [http://www.archive.org/details/nc101_hackers Hackers] , episode of NetCafe including an interview with Aleph One
* [https://lists.grok.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/full-disclosure Full-Disclosure mailing list]
* [http://www.networkcomputing.com/1119/1119f1people_8.html Network Computing feature] about Levy and Bugtraq
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