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+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.