InfoSecurity Magazine Posted By: Dave Wreski 11/24/2001
It was supposed to be the year Peiter Zatko could finally step out from behind the digital curtain. Invited to a February 2000 photo op with President Bill Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room, he felt that he'd finally be able to reveal himself and receive the public recognition for security work he had done for the government.
For more years than he's willing to admit, Zatko has been better known as Mudge, a computer hacker with a rock-star following. He always hated the label, but he looked the part. His hair fell well below his shoulders, and his goatee hung low off his chin. He used his alias, and he kept biographical details like his age and where he lived secret. As one of the founding members of the gray-hat hacker group L0pht Heavy Industries, Mudge, with his colleagues, developed and released defensive tools, including the widely used L0phtCrack password vulnerability software.
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