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You can watch one of his talks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGwol-keXM and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneBjc8z0DE

He always had a certain eccentricity to him. I never met him in person. He always was the prototypical nerd judging from his talks and mannerisms.

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For the interested, someone [1] is putting together a collection of videos of him, so you can probably find a whole lot more in the replies to that thread even if you don't wait for the playlist to be made.

[1] - https://twitter.com/thedarktangent/status/138595909778312806...

That’s the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat.

I'm aware, the specific identity of the person doing the collecting just didn't seem relevant.

I briefly met him at Toorcon in the early 2000s and was impressed with how he combined that eccentricity with high-energy: if the internet didn't get more secure, it wasn't for lack of trying on his part.

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