Tom Cross (computer security)

Short description: American computer security expert

Tom Cross

Tom Cross at the Emperor (Happy Valley) Hotel in Hong Kong in 2001

Born| 1976

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alma mater| Georgia Institute of Technology
Known for| MemeStreams

Tom Cross (born 1976), also known as Decius, is an American computer security expert and hacker.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Security work
* 3 Writing
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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.[1][2]

## 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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5][6] He has also been a co-host on episodes of "Binary Revolution", as a cryptography expert.[7][8]

## Writing

* "An open letter to PFIR on "Whois" privacy", Politech listserv, June 24, 2004
* "DNS WHOIS: Barking up the wrong tree", CircleID, June 28, 2004
* "The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains", Vint Cerf answers three of Tom's questions in an interview, CircleID, March 13, 2006
* "Academic freedom and the hacker ethic", Communications of the ACM, June 2006.
* "Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis", First Monday, September 2006.

## References

1. ↑ Cross, Tom (September 2006). "Puppy smoothies: Improving the reliability of open, collaborative wikis". http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/cross/. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
2. ↑ Cross, Tom. "Georgia-Voter.Info". http://www.georgia-voter.info/. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
3. ↑ "Executive Officers". Industrial Memetics. http://www.industrialmemetics.com/officers.php. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
4. ↑ "Tom Cross". IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop. Information Technology and Operations Center at West Point. Archived from the original on September 15, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070915103632/http://www.itoc.usma.edu/workshop/2007/Program/Speakers/Cross.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
5. ↑ Cross, Tom. "IP essay by Decius". http://legalminds.lp.findlaw.com/list/ip-activist/msg00002.html. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
6. ↑ Cross, Tom (December 11, 2012). "5 key computer network security challenges for 2013". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/12/11/5-key-computer-network-security-challenges-for-2013/. Retrieved January 19, 2013.
7. ↑ "Episode 58 - Memetics". Binary Revolution. 2004-08-17. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012152547/http://binrev.com/radio/archive.php?p=15. Retrieved 2007-10-15.
8. ↑ "Episode 148 - Rainbow Tables". Binary Revolution. 2006-05-16. Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20070607152627/http://www.binrev.com/radio/archive.php?viewid=149. Retrieved 2007-10-15.

## External links

* Decius's page at MemeStreams
* Binary Revolution
* Industrial Memetics Institute
* PhreakNIC technology conference
* MemeStreams Weblog Community

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