Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN

A "legend" returns! 'Mudge' is back!

For those of us who have been around the internet for a while, he is well known, as is the "Lopht" group he was part of.

For those who are not as deeply steeped in internet lore and legend, 'Mudge" (and Lopht, also) were the real thing, not like the "script kiddies", etc. of today.

Here the link to the article, and a snippet:

Hacker 'Mudge' Returns to BBN:

Security industry veteran and itinerant hacker Peiter Zatko decided this week to rejoin Internet pioneer BBN Technologies Inc. as a research scientist.

Better known in security circles as Mudge, Zatko was one of the founding members of the L0pht Heavy Industries hacking team that later became the technical heart of @stake Inc. He left @stake several years ago and stayed away from the security industry for a while before resurfacing last year as the founding scientist at Intrusic Inc., a Waltham, Mass., startup.
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Called to testify along with several other L0pht members before a Senate committee in 1998, Zatko famously told the senators that he or any of his cohorts could take down the Internet in a half hour.