The Shmoo Group is an international organization founded by Bruce Potter in the late 1990s as a non-profit security think-tank. The group is composed of people such as Apache Foundation director Ben Laurie, anonymity guru Len Sassaman, PGP Corporation CTO Jon Callas, and Hollywood film system administrator Adam Shand.
The group runs and sponsors various initiatives, and runs the annual ShmooCon conference, which was founded in 2005. Other projects include: