Kevin D. Mitnick

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1. Kevin D. Mitnick

   Author of The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security, The Art of Intrusion

2. Bruce Schneier

   Author of Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, Beyond Fear

3. Steven Levy

   Author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

4. Jon Erickson

   Author of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

5. Greg Hoglund

   Author of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series), Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel (Addison-Wesley Software Security Series)

6. Jonathan Littman

   Author of The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick, The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen

7. Katie Hafner

   Author of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

8. Eric S. Raymond

   Author of The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

9. Stuart McClure

   Author of Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions (Hacking Exposed)

10. Sam Williams

    Author of Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

11. Wallace Wang

    Author of Steal this computer book : what they won't tell you about the Internet

12. Clifford Stoll

    Author of The Cuckoo's Egg

13. Paul Graham

    Author of Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

14. Michal Zalewski

    Author of Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

15. Eldad Eilam

    Author of Reversing : Secrets of Reverse Engineering

16. Simon Singh

    Author of The Code Book

17. Niels Ferguson

    Author of Practical Cryptography

18. Ross J. Anderson

    Author of Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

19. Linus Torvalds

    Author of Just For Fun

20. David Litchfield

    Author of The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers