Rodrigo Rubira Branco (BSDaemon)
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The Brazilian vulnerability researcher who has led malware and vulnerability research at Qualys, headed research at Check Point in Israel, worked on IBM's Advanced Linux Response Team, and has published dozens of flaws in widely used products - one of the country's most visible names on the international conference circuit.
His significance for Brazil is the demonstration effect: low-level security research - kernels, firmware, exploit mitigation - was assumed to happen elsewhere, and a generation of Brazilian researchers followed a path he helped make visible. The local conference culture that grew alongside it, notably the Hackers to Hackers Conference in São Paulo, is where much of that community still meets.
Also known as: bsdaemon, kernel hacking, hackers to hackers conference