Moxie Marlinspike

Moxie Marlinspike is the pseudonym of a computer security researcher. His research has focused primarily on techniques for intercepting communication, as well as methods for strengthening communication infrastructure against interception. He is a member of the Institute for Disruptive Studies, former head of the security team at Twitter, founder of Open Whisper Systems, and a fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. He runs a cloud-based WPA cracking service, manages the GoogleSharing targeted anonymity service, and is the author of the Convergence SSL authentication system.