Space Rogue (Cris Thomas)
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The L0pht member who founded the Hacker News Network, testified alongside the rest of the crew before the US Senate in 1998, and has spent the decades since as one of the field's most consistent public voices on research ethics and vendor behaviour.
HNN mattered because it was journalism by practitioners at a moment when mainstream coverage of hacking was mostly panic; it set the tone for the security press that followed. He later wrote the L0pht's own history, arguing against the tidy legend the industry prefers, and remains a fixture at DEF CON and Black Hat - proof that the underground's institutional memory is carried by people, not archives.
Also known as: cris thomas, hacker news network, l0pht member