Bigendian Smalls: BS ain't no chump, takin' apart everything as a child just to see how it works invariable led him to security. From BBSin' back in the day to placing second in the network forensics challenge last year he knows what he's doing. At work and at home he does vulnerability research, forensics and disassembly of all things both on hardware and software. Knowing no system is secure and seeing how closed the source, community and information around the mainframe is he got worried. Worried that the code was as secure as they said it was. Worried that because no one is looking, developers are getting away with murder. Sure, IBM says they got their shit together, but then again so does Oracle, CISCO, Fireeye etc . Having worked on mainframes for more than a decade he knows how frustrating this is. With books from the 80s and forum posts from the 90s being of very little value, he aims to help drive the future of mainframe security research.
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