In 1996 Aleph One published Smashing The Stack For Fun and Profit and launched a thousand careers in bug hunting, pen testing, and decent old school offense. Many of us formed our day to day routine around his mailing list, bugtraq, which was later commercialized and sold to Symantec. At that time Aleph1 moved to defense and product development with Symantec and later Sourcefire, but continued to shape industry as an editor with CVE and IEEE. Elias continues to maintain appearances as a solutions-driven engineer now with Cisco, but we all remain grateful to know his true roots are in blackhat-mindedness and fundamental disclosure.
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