Major Malfunction is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in an old beach towel. He lives in a carefully constructed fantasy world of nuclear bunkers, clandestine meetings with taxi drivers at airports, satellite feeds and prohibited weapons.

This is what his neighbours have to say about him:

"He was always such a polite young man. He never caused any trouble, and kept himself to himself. They say it's always the quiet ones, don't they? Who knew? Who knew?"

"Somebody actually lives there???"

"Mr. Snuggles has never been quite the same..."

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Adam "Major Malfunction" Laurie is a security consultant working in the field of electronic communications, and a Director of Aperture Labs Ltd., who specialise in reverse engineering of secure systems. He started in the computer industry in the late Seventies, and quickly became interested in the underlying network and data protocols. During this period, he successfully disproved the industry lie that music CDs could not be read by computers, and wrote the world's first CD ripper, 'CDGRAB'. He was also involved various early open source projects, including 'Apache-SSL' which went on to become the de-facto standard secure web server. Since the late Nineties he has focused his attention on security, and has been the author of various papers exposing flaws in Internet services and/or software, as well as pioneering the concept of re-using military data centres (housed in underground nuclear bunkers) as secure hosting facilities.