Bitemytaco is a well-known person in the DOCSIS research community and one of the root admins at SBHacker.net, the largest modem hacking community in the world. He funded the development of Haxorware (coded by Rajkosto) - the most popular and innovative diagnostic cable modem firmware ever released. He also coordinated the development of the current hacked SB6120 firmware and released it to the public on Christmas 2009. Taco has been researching cable modem networks since 1998 and has been involved in the modem hacking scene for many years. "DOCSIS: Insecure By Design" was presented at DEFCON 16 by Taco along with teammates Blake of SERC and devDelay of SBHacker.