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TOP 3 White-
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 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee

Born: Timothy John Berners-Lee

8 June 1955 (age 63) London, England
Occupation: Professor of Computer
Science

Spouse(s): Nancy Carlson

(m. 1990; div. 2011)
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee was born in London, England,
United Kingdom, one of four children
born to Mary Lee Woods and Conway
Berners-Lee. His parents worked on the
first commercially built computer,
the Ferranti Mark 1. He attended Sheen
Mount Primary School, and then went on
to attend south west London's Emanuel
School from 1969 to 1973, at the time
a direct grant grammar school, which
became an independent school in 1975. A
keen train-spotter as a child, he learnt
about electronics from tinkering with a
model railway. He studied at The Queen's
College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976,
where he received a first-class bachelor
of arts degree in physics.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee was born in London, England,
United Kingdom, one of four children
born to Mary Lee Woods and Conway
Berners-Lee. His parents worked on the
first commercially built computer,
the Ferranti Mark 1. He attended Sheen
Mount Primary School, and then went on
to attend south west London's Emanuel
School from 1969 to 1973, at the time
a direct grant grammar school, which
became an independent school in 1975. A
keen train-spotter as a child, he learnt
about electronics from tinkering with a
model railway. He studied at The Queen's
College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1976,
where he received a first-class bachelor
of arts degree in physics.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
In 1989, while working at CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva,
Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global
hypertext project, to be known as the World
Wide Web. Based on the earlier "Enquire" work,
it was designed to allow people to work
together by combining their knowledge in a web
of hypertext documents. He wrote the first
World Wide Web server, "httpd", and the first
client, "WorldWideWeb", a what-you-see-is-
what-you-get hypertext browser/editor that ran
in the NeXTStep environment. This work was
started in October 1990, and the program
"WorldWideWeb" was first made available within
CERN in December, and on the Internet at large
in the summer of 1991.
Through 1991 and 1993, Tim continued working
on the design of the Web, coordinating
feedback from users across the Internet. His
initial specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML
were refined and discussed in larger circles
as the Web technology spread.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee graduated from the
Queen's College at Oxford University,
England, 1976. While there, he built his
first computer with a soldering iron,
TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old
television.
He spent two years with Plessey
Telecommunications Ltd (Poole, Dorset,
UK), a major UK Telecom equipment
manufacturer, working on distributed
transaction systems, message relays, and
bar code technology.
In 1978 Tim left Plessey to join D.G
Nash Ltd (Ferndown, Dorset, UK), where
he wrote among other things typesetting
software for intelligent printers, and a
multitasking operating system.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
A year and a half spent as an independent
consultant included a six-month stint (Jun-Dec
1980) as consultant software engineer at CERN.
While there, he wrote for his own private use
his first program for storing information
including using random associations. Named
"Enquire" and never published, this program
formed the conceptual basis for the future
development of the World Wide Web.
From 1981 until 1984, Tim worked at John Poole's
Image Computer Systems Ltd, with technical
design responsibility. Work here included real
time control firmware, graphics and
communications software, and a generic macro
language. In 1984, he took up a fellowship at
CERN, to work on distributed real-time systems
for scientific data acquisition and system
control. Among other things, he worked on
FASTBUS system software and designed a
heterogeneous remote procedure call system.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
In 1994, Tim founded the World Wide Web
Consortium at the then, Laboratory for
Computer Science (LCS), which merged
with the Artificial Intelligence Lab in
2003 to become the Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT). Since that time, he
has served as the Director of the World
Wide Web Consortium, a Web standards
organization that develops interoperable
technologies (specifications,
guidelines, software, and tools) to lead
the Web to its full potential. The
Consortium has host sites located at
MIT, at ERCIM in Europe, and at Keio
University in Japan as well as offices
around the world.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
In 1999, he became the first holder of the
3COM Founders chair. He is currently the 3COM
Founders Professor of Engineering in the
School of Engineering, with a joint
appointment in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at CSAIL,
where he also heads the Decentralized
Information Group (DIG). In December 2004 he
was named a Professor in the Computer Science
Department at the University of Southampton,
UK. He was co-Director of the Web Science
Trust, launched in 2006 as the Web Science
Research Initiative, to help create the first
multidisciplinary research body to examine
the World Wide Web and offer the practical
solutions needed to help guide its future use
and design. He is a Director of the World
Wide Web Foundation, started in 2008 to fund
and coordinate efforts to further the
potential of the Web to benefit humanity.
 [1.] Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee

In June 2009 then Prime Minister

Gordon Brown announced that Sir Tim
Berners-Lee would work with the UK
Government to help make data more
open and accessible on the Web,
building on the work of the Power of
Information Task Force. Sir Tim is
currently a member of The Public
Sector Transparency Board to drive
forward the UK Government’s
transparency agenda.
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 [2. Jeff Moss ( Dark Tangent ) ]

Born: January 1, 1975 (age 43)

California, United States of America
 [2.] Jeff Moss
[EARLY LIFE]

Jeff received his first computer at the

age of 10. He became fascinated because
he wasn't old enough to drive a car or
vote, but he could engage in adult
conversation with people all over the
country.
Moss graduated from Gonzaga
University with a BA in Criminal
Justice. He worked for Ernst & Young,
LLP in their Information System Security
division and was a director at Secure
Computing Corporation where he helped
establish the Professional Services
Department in the United States, Asia,
and Australia.
 [2.] Jeff Moss
[Later Career]

Moss is also a member of the Council on Foreign

Relations (CFR). The Council on Foreign Relations
is an independent, nonpartisan membership
organization, think tank, and publisher. Jeff,
when in Washington D.C., is a regular meeting
attendant.
In 2009 Moss was sworn into the Homeland Security
Advisory Council of the Barack
Obama administration.
On 28 April 2011 Jeff Moss was
appointed ICANN Chief Security Officer.
In July 2012, Secretary Janet Napolitano directed
the Homeland Security Advisory Council to form
the Task Force on Cyber Skills in response to the
increasing demand for the best and brightest in
the cyber security field across industry,
academia and government.
 [2.] Jeff Moss

The Task Force, co-chaired by Jeff Moss and Alan

Paller, conducted extensive interviews with experts
from government, the private sector, and academia in
developing its recommendations to grow the
advanced technical skills of the DHS cybersecurity
workforce and expand the national pipeline of men
and women with these cybersecurity skills. On
October 1, the HSAC unanimously approved sending
the Task Force recommendations to the Secretary.
In October 2013, Jeff announced that he would be
stepping down from his position at ICANN at the end
of 2013.
 [2.] Jeff Moss
In 2013, Jeff was appointed as a Nonresident
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council,
associated with the Cyber Statecraft
Initiative, within the Brent Scowcroft Center
on International Security.
In 2014, Jeff joined the Georgetown
University School of Law School Cybersecurity
Advisory Committee.
In 2017, Jeff was named a Commissioner at
the Global Commission on the Stability of
Cyberspace. The GCSC is composed of 24
prominent independent Commissioners
representing a wide range of geographic
regions as well as government, industry,
technical and civil society stakeholders with
legitimacy to speak on different aspects of
cyberspace. The Commission's stated aim is to
develop proposals for norms and policies to
enhance international security and stability
and guide responsible state and non-state
behavior in cyberspace.
 [2.] Jeff Moss

In 2017, Jeff spearheaded the

creation of the DEF CON Voting
Machine Village. Debuting at DEF CON
25, the Voting Machine Village
allowed hackers to test the security
of electronic voting machines,
including several models still in
active use in the US. The machines
were all compromised over the course
of the conference by DEF CON
attendees, some within hours of the
village's opening. The resulting
media coverage of the vulnerability
of all tested machines sparked a
national conversation and inspired
legislation in Virginia.
 [2.] Jeff Moss
In September 2017, the Voting Machine
Village produced "DEF CON 25 Voting
Machine Hacking Village: Report on Cyber
Vulnerabilities in US Election Equipment,
Databases and Infrastructure" summarizing
its findings. The findings were publicly
released at an event sponsored by
the Atlantic Council and the paper went on
to win an O'Reilly Defender Research
Award.
In March of 2018, the DEF CON Voting
Machine Hacking Village was awarded a
Cybersecurity Excellence Award. The award
cites both the spurring of a national
dialog around securing the US election
system and the release of the nation's
first cybersecurity election plan.
[3. Kevin Mitnick
( The Condor, The Darkside Hacker ) ]
Born: January 1, 1975 (age 43)
California, United States of America
 [3.] Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick is the world's most

famous hacker, bestselling author,
and the top cyber security speaker.
Once one of the FBI's Most Wanted
because he hacked into 40 major
corporations just for the challenge,
Kevin is now a trusted security
consultant to the Fortune 500 and
governments worldwide.
Kevin mentors leaders, executives,
and staff on both the theory and
practice of social engineering,
topics on which he is the leading
global authority. Kevin also helps
consumers—from students to retirees—
learn how to protect their
information and themselves from
harm. 
 [3.] Kevin Mitnick

As the CEO of Mitnick Security

Consulting, Kevin, and The Global
Ghost Team™ now maintain a 100 percent
successful track record of being able
to penetrate the security of any
system they are paid to hack into
using a combination of technical
exploits and social engineering. Also
in his role of Chief Hacking Officer
of KnowBe4 he helps produce
critically acclaimed security
awareness training programs to
counteract social engineering and to
improve security effectiveness.
 [3.] Kevin Mitnick

As the CEO of Mitnick Security

Consulting, Kevin, and The Global
Ghost Team™ now maintain a 100 percent
successful track record of being able
to penetrate the security of any
system they are paid to hack into
using a combination of technical
exploits and social engineering. Also
in his role of Chief Hacking Officer
of KnowBe4 he helps produce
critically acclaimed security
awareness training programs to
counteract social engineering and to
improve security effectiveness.
 [3.] Kevin Mitnick

Kevin is a global bestselling author

and his books are availability in
over 50 countries and 20 languages.
His books include Art of Intrusion:
The Real Story Behind the Exploits of
Hackers, Intruders and
Deceivers and Art of Deception:
Controlling the Human Element of
Security, which are mandatory
readings for security professionals.
His autobiography, Ghost in the
Wires: My Adventures as the World's
Most Wanted Hacker, a New York Times
best seller and his latest work
released in 2017 is , a ground-
breaking book on privacy.
 [3.] Kevin Mitnick

As a one-of-a-kind public speaker,

Kevin's presentations are akin to
technology magic shows which include
the latest hacking techniques that
educate and inform while keeping
people on the edge of their seats. He
offers expert commentary on issues
related to information security and
increases "security awareness". Kevin
has been a commentator, security
analyst, or interview subject for
almost every major news outlet around
the globe.
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