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Tom Cross at the Emperor (Happy Valley) Hotel in Hong Kong in 2001
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| Born | 1976 Toronto, Canada |
| Alma mater | Georgia Tech |
| Known for | MemeStreams |
Tom Cross, also known as Decius, is an American computer security expert and hacker.
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Cross was born in 1976 in Toronto, Canada and grew up in Tennessee. His father worked in telecommunications policy and his mother was a Registered Nurse's Assistant. He attended Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee, before attending Georgia Tech in Atlanta, receiving a Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering.[1][2]
He co-founded the EFGA (Electronic Frontiers Georgia) in 1995. In 1996, he co-founded Computer Sentry Software, known for their award-winning "CyberAngel" software, a laptop anti-theft program. From 1999-2000, he was Chief Engineer at Dataway, a computer security firm in San Francisco. From 2000-2001 he worked at iAsiaWorks, as the Director of Global Security Engineering. In 2001, he founded Industrial Memetics, which developed the popular collaborative blogging community MemeStreams.[3]
Cross has been a speaker at several technology conferences, including PhreakNIC; Summercon; "The First International Hackers' Conference in Seoul Korea" (IS2K); "InternetWorld" in Singapore; and APRICOT, the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies.[4] He was also among the attendees at the first ever Def Con. He is known for extensive "rant" essays and speeches on technology and policy.[5] He has also been a co-host on episodes of "Binary Revolution", as a cryptography expert.[6][7]