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Staff Bios


Chris AKA: Roamer - The result of anger management classes gone horribly wrong. As Founder of the Worldwide Wardrive, Organizer of the DefCon WarDriving Contest, moderator on the Netstumbler forums, and administrator of the DefCon forums, he has helped lead the wardriving community to what it is today.  Where that may be is anyone's guess. His middle finger is a registered lethal weapon and is often leveled at n00bs who don't bother to 'search' or anyone pointing a camera at him. Bearer of root and administrator of punishment, Chris helps maintain the Wi-Fi archives and doles out 'corrective' measures where necessary, usually with the aid of a lead pipe. Together with audit, he runs the child labor sweatshop in Indonesia that does all the behind the scenes work on the archive. | [email protected]

John AKA: Audit - He's the official media whore for michiganwireless, maintains the news on the site, the archive, the forums, and his alcohol intake as well as directing staff smack downs on stupidity. He is known in the wireless world as founder of Michigan wireless, moderator of the Netstumbler forums, Administrator of the WWWD forums, and soon-to-be founder of the Michigan wireless militia. His devotion to wireless is such that he wanted to name his kids WiFi and Omni, but that soon changed after his wife hid his beer until he came around. Audit also wrote a paper on How NOT to get pulled over by LEOs. For years Audit thought he was adopted until searching the Internet for bullet dyanmics he discovered he was really a love child of a lost member of the Budweiser Beer family, He's a Highly evolved specimen of a heavy beer drinking, tobacco chewing redneck security Nazi. Walk softly and carry a big stick? Naaa, let him hear you coming and pray that your not outgunned. | [email protected]

Frank AKA: Thorn - Beware the quiet ones. Not much is known about Thorn. Possibly an early Robocop experiment, or perhaps just an FAQ writing perl script. His posts as moderator on the netstumbler forums show a repeated stutter of the word 'search', showing a possible loop in the software. | [email protected]

RenderMan - Token Canadian, content writer and gopher. Sometimes full of ideas, other times, just full of it. Renderman is also the author of the Stumbler Code of Ethics. A fixture of the wardriving and WWWD community for years, RenderMan is usually not to far away from any wardriving news, often causing it himself. When not tightening his tin-foil hat or chugging a brew, he can be found impersonating Al Capone and yelling at people; 'I'm not a mad scientist, I'm just angry!' | [email protected]

bernie: AKA; server01 - Bernie's the one that has heart attacks over bandwidth bills, all the hardware (server) problems, and pays the bills. Like Thorn, he's a quiet one.