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StankDawg is the pseudonym of David Blake (b. 1971), the founder of the hacking group Digital DawgPound (DDP). He is best known as the founding host and producer of the long-running weekly radio program Binary Revolution Radio and the video show called DDP HackTV.

Biography

History

David was born in Newport News, Virginia on September 13, 1971, the oldest of three children. His father was an engineer, and his mother was a secretary and homemaker. His family moved around quite a bit, and he grew up all over the South on a mix of farms and suburbs in such states as Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and Kentucky. Over the course of four years, he went to four different high schools in three different states, finally graduating from Oldham County High School in Buckner, Kentucky in 1989. He then moved on to the University of Kentucky, where he received an AAS (Associates in Applied Sciences) degree in 1992, and eventually graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a BS degree in CS (Bachelors in Science:Computer Science). He also took some part-time classes at the University of Louisville in between the two. He began working in the computer industry immediately out of high school in the late 1980s and has worked as a senior level programmer/analyst for various companies and large universities. He has his CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) Certification and has been a guest instructor for a Professional Security Certification Company in Ft. Lauderdale.

Current

StankDawg presently lives and works as a computer programmer/analyst in Orlando, Florida.

Hacking

David chose the handle "StankDawg" in college, where he started a local hacking group which became known as the "Digital DawgPound". He frequently participated in hacker subculture USENET groups and IRC chats, but reportedly found himself getting annoyed with the politics, in-fighting, "Elitism", and lack of supportive atmosphere, so decided to found his own website, http://www.stankdawg.com, as a repository for his articles and personal message forums for those people who wanted a haven to learn and grow.

Writing

StankDawg is a staff writer for well-known hacker periodicals such as 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, and Blacklisted! 411 magazine. He has also been a contributing writer to several independent zines such as Outbreak, Frequency, and Radical Future. He is also creator and editor of BR Magazine. He has been a frequent co-host of Default Radio and was a regular on Radio Freek America, and has appeared on GAMERadio, Infonomicon, The MindWar, and Phreak Phactor.

Media

In addition to making appearances on radio shows, StankDawg has given presentations at technology conferences such as DEF CON, H.O.P.E., and Interzone, and gives several volunteer webcasts, presentations, or Q/A sessions to private corporations. He has appeared in a wardriving segment on an episode of Most Extreme which aired on Animal Planet and has done many television interviews for local news channels in the state of Florida, usually on the subjects of hacking and cyber-culture.

Binary Revolution

In 2003, wanting to continue a "revolution of hacking", StankDawg moved the forums from his personal site over to a new site as part of a movement called the Binary Revolution. Along with the forums, he launched a new radio show called Binary Revolution Radio, presenting shows each week on different aspects of hacker culture, usually with a different co-host each episode. Shortly afterwards, he released a video show entitled "HackTV" which was the first internet television show about hacking, which has grown into a series of several different shows and spawned several online videos in the same vein. The video show addressed topics that were similar to the radio show but with the benefit of a visual medium. He solo produced both shows in the beginning, and they proved popular, routinely bringing thousands of downloads, and inspiring over a dozen other cyberculture and "Hacker Media" shows and podcasts. Many people now contribute to the shows. As of 2006, the Binary Revolution site gets well over 8000 unique visitors per day.

In the summer of 2005, StankDawg took a one-year sabbatical from day-to-day administration of all things DDP-related. This included the popular binrev.com suite of sites including the radio show, TV show, message forums, and other projects. His cited reasons were personal issues, as well as claiming a general lack of enthusiasm and support from the hacking community about his projects. When taking his sabbatical, StankDawg turned over the reins of Binary Revolution Radio to Strom Carlson and Black Ratchet for season three, though StankDawg returned to the show for season 4 starting in the summer of 2006 and currently alternates the hosting duties with other members of the DDP.

Resources

Writing

Printed

• "The Art of Electronic Deduction", Winter 2005, Blacklisted411 Magazine
• "Stupid Webstats Tricks", Autumn 2005, 2600 Magazine
• "Hacking Google AdWords", Summer 2005, 2600 Magazine
• "Disposable Email Vulnerabilities", Spring 2005, 2600 Magazine
• "0wning Universal Studios Florida", Fall 2004, Blacklisted411 Magazine
• "How to Hack The Lottery", Fall 2004, 2600 Magazine
• "Robots and Spiders", Winter 2003, 2600 Magazine
• "A History of 31337sp34k", Fall 2002, 2600 Magazine
• "Transaction Based Systems", Spring 2002, 2600 Magazine
• "Batch vs. Interactive", Summer 1999, 2600 Magazine

Online

• "Hackers Insomnia", October 2004, Frequency zine
• "Fun with the dnL flipit chatbot", December 2003, Outbreak zine issue #14
• "Inside Circuit City", December 2003, Outbreak zine issue #14 (co-authored with bios)
• "Scanning GO.MSN.COM", Winter 2003, Radical Future zine Issue #5
• "DMCA vs googlefight.com", December 2002, Outbreak zine issue #12
• "Basic Directory Transversal", November 2002, Outbreak zine issue #11
• "Hacking Movies", Winter 2002, Radical Future zine Issue #3
• "AIM Transcript (Campaign For Freedom)", Winter 2002, Radical Future zine Issue #3

Presentations

• "Binary Revolution Radio - Season 4 live!", July 2006, H.O.P.E. Number Six
• "The Art of Electronic Deduction", March 2006, Interz0ne 5 and July 2006, H.O.P.E. Number Six
• "Hacking Google AdWords", July 2005, DEF CON 13
• "Hacker Radio", July 2004, The fifth H.O.P.E. (guest panelist)
• "AS/400: Lifting the veil of obscurity", July 2004, The fifth H.O.P.E.
• "Disposable Email vulnerabilities", March 2004, Interz0ne 4

References

• "Cybercrime: Where is the Outrage?", Technology Decisions, November, 2004
• "Dubious Achievement: iSeries Gets Some Attention From Hackers", IT Jungle, July 2004
• Super Sharks, February 15, 2005 episode of "The Most Extreme", on Animal Planet (credited as Stank Dawg)
• "A History and Analysis of the 'l33t' Dialect", January 12, 2003, by Sasha Dyck. Includes quotes from Stankdawg, and cites some of his articles as sources
• Template:PDFlink, Fall 2002, by Blake Sherblom-Woodward
• Blog review of Stankdawg's Def Con 13 presentation on Google AdWords, July 13, 2005

External links

• StankDawg's Dawg House, StankDawg's personal site.
• The official DDP "blawg", official site of the DDP.

• 1971 births
• Living people
• American bloggers
• Computer programmers
• Computer security specialists
• Internet personalities
• People from Virginia
• People known by pseudonyms