W00w00

w00w00 is a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s.[1][2] Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies. The two most famous examples are WhatsApp, the messaging service, and Napster, the pioneering file-sharing company.[3][4]

Participants

The official website, explicitly states "there are no 'members'" only participants, which at one point included 30+ active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.[1][3][5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club". TechCrunch. 2014-03-02. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  2. ↑ "Interview with Matt Conover (Shok), w00w00 Hacker". Help Net Security. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
  3. 1 2 "Elite security posse fostered founders of WhatsApp, Napster". Reuters. 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  4. ↑ "The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby". Forbes. 2014-02-19. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  5. ↑ "Manden der fik os til at tro, at musik skulle være gratis". Politiken. 2009-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-06.

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