Dave Buchwald
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Dave Buchwald (once known as Bill From RNOC), b. September 4, 1970, was a hacker and leader of the Legion of Doom in the mid-1980s.[citation needed]
At his peak, Mr. Buchwald was one of the country's top social engineers, with the ability to manipulate phone system employees virtually anywhere in the United States. In addition, he had a very high level of hacking skill with regard to Bell and AT&T systems (specifically COSMOS, SCCS, and LMOS), which allowed him virtually unrestricted access to phone lines, including the ability to monitor conversations, throughout the country. He was extremely respected, and even a bit feared, within the hacker community. Many of his original gambits are still in use by social engineers today. One time, Mr. Buchwald was rumoured to have brought down the Boston transit system using his infamous "Man who lost his hat" gambit.[citation needed]
He served as a mentor to many other notable hackers of the era, including Control C, a well-known Legion of Doom hacker-cum-security consultant from Michigan.
In 1995, Dave served as a technical consultant to the movie Hackers. While the film is panned by some actual hackers as being inaccurate and sensationalized, the anecdotal hacker sequences in the film, as well as the mannerisms and attitudes of the main characters, are patterned after many of the hackers he associated with from the New York City area.
Later, in 1997, he co-founded Crossbar Security with Phiber Optik and Andrew Brown. Crossbar provided info security services for a number of large corporations during its short life, during which the principles conducted business in the U.S., Japan, Brazil, and Sweden. As a result of the "dot com" bust, Crossbar ultimately went defunct in 2001, largely due to cuts in corporate security spending and the vast increase of corporate computer security advertising budgets.
Dave is currently working as a film editor and freelance photographer in New York City. He is well known for his highly original cover art for 2600 Magazine In August of 2006 he completed his first feature film, Urchin, he is currently editing Brooklyn based indy Love Simple, and is in development with KURU the second movie by production company The Enemy.
He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his fiancée, a puppy named Deetle, a dog named Bisbee, a 3-legged cat, and 13 fish.
