What do the WikiScanner tool, the website Romanpoet.org (that I wrote about in this post) and Chris Adami have in common? Virgil Griffith! The is suposedly the best known hacker in the US. He wrote WikiScanner, his online name is romanpoet (hence the website name) and he is now at caltech working with Chris Adami, the author of the avida software. It’s weird how these three things I’ve been following are connected.
Here is his website:
And here is a “Colbert report” about him:
