Seth Schoen
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Seth David Schoen (born September 27, 1979) is staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology civil rights organisation, and has been actively involved in discussing digital copyright law and encryption since the 1990s. He is an expert in trusted computing and is rumored to be writing a book on the subject.
In October, 2005, Schoen led a small research team at EFF to decode the tiny tracking dots hidden in the printouts of some laser printers.[1]
Schoen previously worked for Linuxcare, where he developed the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card. After he left Linuxcare, he forked the project to create the LNX-BBC rescue system, of which he is a lead developer. Before that, while attending UC Berkeley, he founded Californians for Academic Freedom to protest the loyalty oath the state made university employees swear. He never completed his degree.
Schoen has recently admitted that he is the author of the DeCSS haiku; the haiku was submitted through an anonymous remailer.
Schoen was formerly a board member and the Secretary of Texas non-profit corporation Peer-Directed Projects Center. He stepped down in November 2006.
Schoen's father, Ken, is the proprietor of Schoen Books, a specialty bookshop located in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Seth attended Northfield Mount Hermon High School in Northfield, MA from 1993-1997. In a freshman orientation class Seth wrote a short paper on the number 17. Once when Seth over heard a comment that Hillside Dorm was pink, he wittingly replied "It's not pink, it's salmon." In 1997 he was valedictorian of the class of 1997.
