Virgil Griffith
| Virgil Griffith | |
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Virgil Griffith, 2007
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March 6, 1983 Birmingham, Alabama, United States |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Christof Koch |
| Influences | Douglas Hofstadter |
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Website http://virgil.gr |
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Griffith was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in nearby Tuscaloosa. He graduated from the Alabama School of Math and Science in 2002, and then attended the University of Alabama, studying cognitive science. He transferred to Indiana University in 2004, but returned to graduate cum laude from Alabama in August 2007. Griffith in 2007 was a graduate student studying computation and neural systems. He is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute as a visiting researcher.
Griffith has given talks at the hacker conferences Interz0ne, PhreakNIC, and HOPE. It was at Interz0ne 1 in 2002 that he met Billy Hoffman, a Georgia Tech student, who had discovered a security flaw in the campus magnetic ID card system called "BuzzCard". He and Hoffman proceeded over the next year to learn more about the flaw and attempted to give a talk at Interz0ne2 in April 2003. However, a few hours before the presentation, he and Hoffman were served with a cease and desist order from corporate lawyers acting for Blackboard Inc.. Two days later, it was followed by a lawsuit alleging that they had stolen trade secrets and violated both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Economic Espionage Act. The lawsuit was later settled.
In 2008, together with Aaron Swartz, Griffith designed the Tor2web proxy.
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