Nelson Murilo

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The author of chkrootkit, the rootkit detector that has been part of the Unix security toolkit since the late 1990s, and one of the three founders of the ISTS podcast and the YSTS conference.

Very few conference founders anywhere have their own code still installed on other people's servers decades later. chkrootkit is still being released - version 0.57 shipped in January 2023 - which is an unusual thing to be able to say about any security tool, let alone one written before the industry had a name for the category. He is also one of the three voices on the podcast that has been recording since 2006, and the event grew out of that rather than the other way round.

Also known as: nelson murilo rufino, chkrootkit author

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