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| author | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> | 2016-03-15 16:34:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> | 2016-03-15 16:34:38 +0100 |
| commit | 075e2b0c7c62474dddd8f6b537821d7afed31bfb (patch) | |
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| parent | 44c32f45626f50e0b52b84e5da9f7046bb66e36a (diff) | |
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diff --git a/2016/telcosecday/bio.txt b/2016/telcosecday/bio.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56898a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/2016/telcosecday/bio.txt @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +Harald Welte is a data communications freelancer, enthusiast and hacker +who is working with Free Software (and particularly GNU/Linux) +since 1995 His major code contribution to the Linux kernel was as a +core developer of the netfilter/iptables packet filter. + +He has co-started a number of other Free Software and Free Hardware +projects, mainly related to RFID such as librfid, OpenMRTD, OpenBeacon, +OpenPCD, OpenPICC. During 2006 and 2007 Harald became the co-founder of +OpenMoko, where he served as Lead System Architect for the worlds first +100% Open Free Software based mobile phone. + +Aside from his technical contributions, Harald has been pioneering the legal +enforcement of the GNU GPL license as part of his gpl-violations.org project. +More than 150 inappropriate use of GPL licensed code by commercial companies +have been resolved as part of this effort, both in court and out of court. He +has received the 2007 "FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software" and the +"2008 Google/O'Reilly Open Source award: Defender of Rights". + +In 2008, Harald started to work on Free Software on the GSM protocol side, both +for passive sniffing and protocol analysis, as well as an actual network-side +GSM stack implementation called OpenBSC. In 2010, he expanded those +efforts by creating OsmocomBB, a GSM telephony-side baseband processor +firmware and protocol stack. Other projects include +OsmocomTETRA, a receive-only implementation of the ETSI TETRA radio +interface. + +Together with fellow developer Dieter Spaar, Harald has been giving many +incarnations of deeply technical trainings about mobile communications +protocols from the air inteface to the core network, with a special +emphasis on security. + +Harald is co-founder of sysmocom GmbH, Berlin/Germany based company +working on innovative Free Software based products and solutions for +conventional and unconventional operators of mobile networks. Said +projects are also used by various entities in research of mobile +security. |