W00w00

w00w00 (pronounced whoo-whoo) was a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and active until the early 2000s.^{[1][2][unreliable source?]} Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies, including WhatsApp and Napster.^[3][4]

Participants

The group at one point included over 30 active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.^[1][3][5]

The following is a list of some of w00w00's participants:

• Christopher Abad^[6]
• Jonathan Bowie - founding member^[1]
• Josha Bronson - Director of Security at Yammer^[1]
• Silvio Cesare
• Matt Conover - a founding member^[3][7]
• Michael A. Davis - CTO of CounterTack^[1]
• Mark Dowd - co-founder Azimuth Security^[1]
• Joshua J. Drake - from Accuvant Labs^[1]
• Shawn Fanning
• Simon Roses Femerling - formerly at Microsoft Research^[1]
• Jeff Forristal - one of the first people to document SQL injections^[8]
• Michael J. Freeman
• Jonathan Katz
• Jan Koum
• Ralph Logan^[3]
• Matt Ploessel
• Gordon Lyon^[1]
• Brian Martin
• David McKay - an early employee at Google and AdMob^[1]
• Seth McGann^[3]
• David Munson
• Tim Newsham
• Anthony Eufemio (tymat) - co-founder of Digix and an early Ethereum pioneer (made the first transaction on the Ethereum network and cpp-ethereum contributor)^[9][10]
• Ejovi Nuwere
• Adam O’Donnell - co-founder of Immunet^[1]
• Sean Parker
• Alexander Peslyak
• Niels Provos
• Andrew Reiter - a researcher at Veracode^[1]
• Michael Ridpath
• Jordan Ritter
• Dragos Ruiu
• Tim Scanlon
• Dug Song - co-founder of Duo Security and Arbor Networks^[11]
• Tim Yardley - researcher in critical infrastructure security^[1]
• Anthony Zboralski

Notable companies

A number of well known companies have been established by its participants.^{[1][3][12][4]}

• Arbor Networks
• Napster
• nmap
• WhatsApp