Samuel Hocevar (born 5 August 1978) is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security.
Hocevar was born in Forbach, Moselle, France. From 1995 to 1997, he took preparatory classes at the Lycée Fabert in Metz, Moselle, France.[1] He graduated in 2002 from École centrale Paris, after receiving the "Award of Information Technology and Communication" from the SNCF as the most promising student in his class.[2] He specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics, and project management.
Hocevar has been active in the Debian project, and was elected Debian project leader on 17 April 2007.[4][5] Hocevar's Debian leadership platform stated a preference for finishing larger numbers of small projects in succession, echoing the Japanese management philosophy of Kaizen that constant, incremental improvements to a project would generate more gains per unit of time than large single leaps of performance.[6] Hocevar was succeeded by Steve McIntyre on 16 April 2008.
Hocevar has also contributed to the VideoLAN project.[7] He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project, especially to VLC media player and libdvdcss, since 1998. He is the author of various free software programs, such as zzuf, a data fuzzer, and libcaca, a color ASCII art renderer. He is also the current maintainer of the Extension Language KitScheme interpreter, which has found use in many multimedia applications including audio processing.[8]
^Rumori, Martin (2005), "sam+hocevar"+elk&hl=en&as_sdt=1000 footils – Using the foo Sound Synthesis System as an Audio Scripting Language, Cologne, Germany: Klanglabor, Academy Of Media Arts, retrieved 20 March 2010
^"Suspicious Activity? Indeed". Retrieved 20 March 2010.
^Hussain, Muhammed Afzal (2005), "CD-DRM & Sony BMG: A Case Study", Penn State University Citeseer, Penn State University, p. 8, retrieved 20 March 2010[dead link]
^Hocevar, Sam; Niger, Gary (2008), written at Cherbourg-Octeville, France, "Reinstating Floyd-Steinberg: Improved Metrics for Quality Assessment of Error Diffusion Algorithms", Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5099: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, ISBN978-3-540-69904-0, retrieved 20 March 2010
^"Defeating Captcha". Slashdot. 24 August 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
^Bursztein, Elie; Bethard, Steven; Fabry, Celine; Mitchell, John C.; Jurafsky, Dan (2009), written at Oakland, California, United States, (PDF), Program of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Stanford, California: Stanford University, archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2012, retrieved 23 March 2013
^Eaton-Salners, Alex (2004), "DVD Copy Control Association v. Bunner: Freedom of Speech and Trade Secrets", Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Berkeley, California: UC Berkeley Law, retrieved 20 March 2010
^Keizer, Gregg (2010), , Network World, IDG, archived from the original on 20 September 2011, retrieved 2 August 2010, Another Goatse member, French hacker Sam Hocevar, said he couldn't answer questions about Auernheimer's arrest.
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Samuel Hocevar born 5 August 1978 is a French software and video game developer He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008 and one of the founding members of Goatse Security Sam HocevarHocevar in 2007BornSamuel Hocevar 1978 08 05 5 August 1978 age 45 Forbach Moselle FranceAlma materEcole centrale ParisOccupationsSoftware developervideo game developerGoatse Security expertTitleLead Engine Developer Dontnod EntertainmentWebsitesam wbr zoy wbr orgBiography editHocevar was born in Forbach Moselle France From 1995 to 1997 he took preparatory classes at the Lycee Fabert in Metz Moselle France 1 He graduated in 2002 from Ecole centrale Paris after receiving the Award of Information Technology and Communication from the SNCF as the most promising student in his class 2 He specialized in electromechanical systems and applied mechatronics and project management From 2005 to 2006 Hocevar was a Wikimedia France board member 3 Hocevar has been active in the Debian project and was elected Debian project leader on 17 April 2007 4 5 Hocevar s Debian leadership platform stated a preference for finishing larger numbers of small projects in succession echoing the Japanese management philosophy of Kaizen that constant incremental improvements to a project would generate more gains per unit of time than large single leaps of performance 6 Hocevar was succeeded by Steve McIntyre on 16 April 2008 Hocevar has also contributed to the VideoLAN project 7 He has made large contributions to almost all software of the VideoLAN project especially to VLC media player and libdvdcss since 1998 He is the author of various free software programs such as zzuf a data fuzzer and libcaca a color ASCII art renderer He is also the current maintainer of the Extension Language Kit Scheme interpreter which has found use in many multimedia applications including audio processing 8 Hocevar has worked on reverse engineering and image processing He reverse engineered DVD subtitles in 2000 9 and in 2005 it was found that the DRM software which triggered the Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal had unlawfully pirated open source code from the VideoLAN project which Hocevar was involved in authoring 10 11 Hocevar s experience in image processing includes authoring a CAPTCHA decoding framework called PWNtcha 12 13 14 PWNtcha was the first CAPTCHA decoder framework to defeat multiple CAPTCHAs and was referred to as the most famous CAPTCHA breaker in a 2009 Stanford University publication 15 Hocevar authored the WTFPL version 2 an extremely liberal permissive free software license that is recognized by the Free Software Foundation 16 He has also been cited for his whimsical copyleft activism 17 Hocevar is part of Goatse Security an information security working group which revealed a security flaw in AT amp T s website leading to the release of 114 000 email addresses of Apple iPad users 18 References edit Samuel HOCEVAR CV DVI PDF PS Archived 2006 09 24 at the Wayback Machine Sam Hocevar Official Website Retrieved on September 18 2010 Ecole Centrale Paris Archived from the original on 27 November 2006 Retrieved 19 April 2007 2005 2006 WikiMedia France Conseil d administration in French Archived from the original on 7 May 2007 Retrieved 9 April 2007 debian devel announce mailing list Debian Project Leader Election 2007 Results Retrieved 9 April 2007 Sean Michael Kerner 9 April 2007 Debian Etch Takes Over Command From Sarge InternetNews Retrieved 24 April 2007 Sam Hocevar Debian org Platform for Sam Hocevar Debian project Retrieved 20 March 2010 VideoLAN Team Retrieved 18 February 2010 Rumori Martin 2005 sam hocevar elk amp hl en amp as sdt 1000 footils Using the foo Sound Synthesis System as an Audio Scripting Language Cologne Germany Klanglabor Academy Of Media Arts retrieved 20 March 2010 DVD subtitles Retrieved 9 April 2007 Suspicious Activity Indeed Retrieved 20 March 2010 Hussain Muhammed Afzal 2005 CD DRM amp Sony BMG A Case Study Penn State University Citeseer Penn State University p 8 retrieved 20 March 2010 dead link Hocevar Sam Niger Gary 2008 written at Cherbourg Octeville France Reinstating Floyd Steinberg Improved Metrics for Quality Assessment of Error Diffusion Algorithms Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 5099 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Signal Processing Berlin Heidelberg Germany Springer Verlag ISBN 978 3 540 69904 0 retrieved 20 March 2010 PWNtcha website Retrieved 9 April 2007 Defeating Captcha Slashdot 24 August 2005 Retrieved 9 April 2007 Bursztein Elie Bethard Steven Fabry Celine Mitchell John C Jurafsky Dan 2009 written at Oakland California United States How Good are Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs A Large Scale Evaluation PDF Program of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Stanford California Stanford University archived from the original PDF on 21 May 2012 retrieved 23 March 2013 Licenses Free Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Eaton Salners Alex 2004 DVD Copy Control Association v Bunner Freedom of Speech and Trade Secrets Berkeley Technology Law Journal Berkeley California UC Berkeley Law retrieved 20 March 2010 Keizer Gregg 2010 iPad hacker arrested on multiple drug charges after FBI search Network World IDG archived from the original on 20 September 2011 retrieved 2 August 2010 Another Goatse member French hacker Sam Hocevar said he couldn t answer questions about Auernheimer s arrest External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sam Hocevar Official website Sam Hocevar on Twitter Samhocevar on GitHub Preceded byAnthony Towns Debian Project LeaderApril 2007 April 2008 Succeeded bySteve McIntyre Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sam Hocevar amp oldid 1188243370, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
