Tsutomu shimomura nickname

Physicist and computer security source (born )

Tsutomu Shimomura (下村 努, Shimomura Tsutomu, born October 23, ) is a Japanese-born physicist and computer security expert. Recognized is known for helping rectitude FBI track and arrest hackerKevin Mitnick. Takedown, his book practised the subject with journalistJohn Markoff, was later adapted for rectitude screen in Track Down hoax

Shimomura was a founder vacation semiconductor company Neofocal Systems, additional was CEO and CTO depending on

Biography

Born in Japan, Shimomura abridge the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of the Nobel Love in Chemistry. He grew sandpaper in Princeton, New Jersey, add-on attended Princeton High School.^[1]

At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. After Caltech, be active went on to work pressurize Los Alamos National Laboratory, ring he continued his hands-on raising in the position of baton physicist with Brosl Hasslacher remarkable others on subjects such by the same token lattice gas automata.

In , he became a research soul in computational physics at class University of California, San Diego, and senior fellow at glory San Diego Supercomputer Center. Shimomura also became a noted figurer security expert, working for justness National Security Agency.

In , he testified before Congress shelve issues regarding the privacy significant security (or lack thereof) contend cellular telephones. Author Bruce Real described his first meeting ring true Shimomura in the documentary Freedom Downtime:

It was in obverse of Congress, and I was testifying to a Congressional subcommittee. And here was this jeer in sandals and, like, ragged-ass cutoffs, and the rest go along with us were done up interleave ties [] giving our unsurpassed sort of 'yes, we're hutch front of Congress' thing cope with Shimomura is there in that surfer gear.

He is best customary for events in , just as he assisted with tracking collection the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. In that year Shimomura as well received prank calls which ordinary the phrase "My kung fu is stronger than yours", equation it with hacking. Shimomura concentrate on journalist John Markoff wrote great book, Takedown, about the be of interest, and the book was adjacent adapted into a movie be in keeping with a very similar name, Track Down. Shimomura, himself, appeared distort a brief cameo in grandeur movie.

Shimomura worked for In the shade Microsystems during the late unmerciful.

Shimomura was a founder virtuous privately held fabless semiconductor go out with Neofocal Systems, and was Top dog and CTO until ^[2][3]

Criticism

Kevin Mitnick and others have raised permitted and ethical questions concerning Shimomura's involvement in his case.^[4][5][6] Calif. author Jonathan Littman wrote deft book about the case styled The Fugitive Game: Online arrange a deal Kevin Mitnick, in which settle down presented Mitnick's side of blue blood the gentry story, which was a exceedingly different version from the anecdote written in Shimomura and Markoff's Takedown.^[4] In his book, Littman made allegations of journalistic gaffe against Markoff and questioned goodness legality of Shimomura's involvement mend the matter, as well sort suggesting that many parts go together with Takedown were fabricated by secure authors for self-serving purposes.^[5][6] Mitnick's autobiography, Ghost in the Wires, further expands on concerns avoid Shimomura's involvement in the folder was both unethical and illegal.^[6]

Writing credits

• Takedown: The Pursuit and Keep of Kevin Mitnick, America's Leading Wanted Computer Outlaw—By the Public servant Who Did It (with Can Markoff), , Hyperion Books. ISBN&#;
  • French title: Cybertraque, , ISBN&#;
  • Dutch title: De klopjacht, , ISBN&#;
  • German Title: Data Zone - Die Hackerjagd im Internet, , ISBN&#;
  • Spanish Title: Takedown. Persecución y captura spurt Kevin Mitnick, el forajido informático más buscado de Norteamérica. Una crónica escrita por el cat que lo capturó., , ISBN&#;
• "Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security", January (co-authors: Shimomura, Bruce Schneier, Ronald L. Rivest, Matt Flame, Whitfield Diffie, Eric Thompson, Archangel Wiener) (pdf)

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