Seth Schoen, Date of Birth

    

Seth Schoen

American activist

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1979

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Seth Schoen

  • Seth David Schoen (born September 27, 1979) is senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil rights organisation, and has been actively involved in discussing digital copyright law and encryption since the 1990s.
  • He is an expert in trusted computing. In February 2008, Schoen collaborated with a Princeton research group led by Edward Felten that discovered a vulnerability of DRAM that undermined the basic assumptions of computer encryption security.
  • In October 2005, Schoen led a small research team at EFF to decode the tiny tracking dots hidden in the printouts of some laser printers.Seth attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts from 1993–1997.
  • While attending UC Berkeley, Schoen founded Californians for Academic Freedom to protest the loyalty oath the state made university employees swear.
  • Schoen later worked for Linuxcare, where he developed the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card.
  • After he left Linuxcare, he forked the project to create the LNX-BBC rescue system, of which he is a lead developer.
  • Schoen was formerly a board member and the Secretary of the Peer-Directed Projects Center, a Texas-based non-profit corporation, until he stepped down in November 2006. Schoen is the author of the DeCSS haiku.

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