Sam Hocevar
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Samuel Hocevar (born 5 August 1978) is a French
Biography
Hocevar was born in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1995 to 1997, he took preparatory classes at the Lycée Fabert in Metz, Moselle, France.[1] He graduated in 2002 from École centrale Paris, after receiving the "Award of Information Technology and Communication" from the SNCF as the most promising student in his class.[2] He specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.
From 2005 to 2006, Hocevar was a
Hocevar has been active in the Debian project, and was elected Debian project leader on 17 April 2007.[4][5] Hocevar's Debian leadership platform stated a preference for finishing larger numbers of small projects in succession, echoing the Japanese management philosophy of Kaizen that constant, incremental improvements to a project would generate more gains per unit of time than large single leaps of performance.[6] Hocevar was succeeded by Steve McIntyre on 16 April 2008.
Hocevar has also contributed to the
Hocevar has worked on
Hocevar authored the
Hocevar is part of Goatse Security, an information security working group which revealed a security flaw in AT&T's website, leading to the release of 114,000 email addresses of Apple iPad users.[18]
References
- ^ "Samuel HOCEVAR - CV." (DVI, PDF, PS Archived 2006-09-24 at the Wayback Machine). Sam Hocevar Official Website. Retrieved on September 18, 2010.
- ^ "École Centrale Paris". Archived from the original on 27 November 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2007.
- ^ "2005-2006 WikiMedia France Conseil d'administration" (in French). Archived from the original on 7 May 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ "debian-devel-announce mailing list: Debian Project Leader Election 2007 Results". Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ Sean Michael Kerner (9 April 2007). "Debian Etch Takes Over Command From Sarge". InternetNews. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
- ^ Sam Hocevar. "Debian.org: Platform for Sam Hocevar". Debian project. Retrieved 20 March 2010.
- ^ "VideoLAN Team". Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- Cologne, Germany: Klanglabor, Academy Of Media Arts, retrieved 20 March 2010
- ^ "DVD subtitles". Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ "Suspicious Activity? Indeed". Retrieved 20 March 2010.
- ^ Hussain, Muhammed Afzal (2005), "CD-DRM & Sony BMG: A Case Study", Penn State University Citeseer, Penn State University, p. 8, retrieved 20 March 2010 [dead link]
- ISBN 978-3-540-69904-0, retrieved 20 March 2010
- ^ "PWNtcha website". Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ "Defeating Captcha". Slashdot. 24 August 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
- ^ Bursztein, Elie; Bethard, Steven; Fabry, Celine; Mitchell, John C.; Jurafsky, Dan (2009), written at Oakland, California, United States, "How Good are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs? A Large Scale Evaluation" (PDF), Program of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Stanford, California: Stanford University, archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2012, retrieved 23 March 2013
- ^ "Licenses — Free Software Foundation". Free Software Foundation.
- UC Berkeley Law, retrieved 20 March 2010
- ^ Keizer, Gregg (2010), "iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search", Network World, IDG, archived from the original on 20 September 2011, retrieved 2 August 2010,
Another Goatse member, French hacker Sam Hocevar, said he couldn't answer questions about Auernheimer's arrest.
External links
- Official website
- Sam Hocevar on Twitter
- Samhocevar on GitHub