Dave Buchwald
Encyclopedia
Phreaking
Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. As telephone networks have become computerized, phreaking has become closely...
, hacker
Hacker (computer security)
In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge...
, and leader of the Legion of Doom
Legion of Doom (hacking)
The Legion of Doom was a hacker group active from the 1980s to the late 1990s and early 2000. Their name appears to be a reference to the antagonists of Challenge of the Superfriends...
in the mid-1980s.
Hacker
Buchwald was a social engineerSocial engineering (security)
Social engineering is commonly understood to mean the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information...
, with the ability to manipulate phone system employees anywhere in the United States. In addition, he had a hacking skill with regard to Bell
Regional Bell Operating Company
The Regional Bell Operating Companies are the result of United States v. AT&T, the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company . On January 8, 1982, AT&T Corp. settled the suit and agreed to divest its local exchange service operating...
and AT&T
AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
systems (specifically COSMOS
COSMOS (Telecommunications)
COSMOS was a record-keeping system for Main Distribution Frames in the Bell System. COSMOS was introduced in the 1970s after MDFs were found to be congested in large urban telephone exchanges. It assigns terminals so jumpers need not be so long, thus leaving more space on the shelves...
, SCCS
Switching Control Center System
The Switching Control Center System was an Operations Support System developed by Bell Laboratories and deployed during the early 1970s. This computer system was first based on the PDP-11 product line from Digital Equipment Corporation and used the CB Unix operating system and custom application...
, and LMOS
Loop Maintenance Operations System
The Loop Maintenance Operations System is a telephone company trouble ticketing system that plays an essential part in the act of repairing local loops...
), which allowed him virtually unrestricted access to phone lines, including the ability to monitor conversations, throughout the country. Some of his original ideas are still in use by social engineers today.
In 1995, Dave served as a technical consultant to the movie Hackers
Hackers (film)
Hackers is a 1995 American thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Angelina Jolie, Jonny Lee Miller, Renoly Santiago, Matthew Lillard, Lorraine Bracco and Fisher Stevens...
.
Career
In 1997, Buchwald co-founded Crossbar Security with Mark AbeneMark Abene
Mark Abene , better known by his pseudonym Phiber Optik, is a computer security hacker from New York City. Phiber Optik was once a member of the hacker groups Legion of Doom and Masters of Deception....
(a.k.a. Phiber Optik) and Andrew Brown. Crossbar provided information security services for a number of large corporations, but became a casualty of the dot-com bubble
Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2000 during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more...
. Crossbar went defunct in 2001, largely due to cuts in corporate security
Corporate Security
Corporate security identifies and effectively mitigates or manages, at an early stage, any developments that may threaten the resilience and continued survival of a corporation...
spending and an increase in the cost of corporate computer security advertising.
Buchwald works as a film editor and freelance photographer in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He produces cover art for 2600 Magazine. In August 2006, he completed his first feature film, Urchin
Urchin (film)
Urchin is a 2007 film about a homeless boy living in a New York City underground mole people community called Scum-City.-Plot:This is the story of a child who lives in Scum City. When the Old Man came to Scum City, a homeless camp in the Manhattan tunnels, his story seemed wild...
. He has recently produced and edited the independent film Love Simple
Love Simple
Love Simple is a 2009 romantic-comedy feature film written and directed by Mark von Sternberg and starring Francisco Solorzano, Patrizia Hernandez, John Harlacher, Caitlin FitzGerald and Israel Horovitz....
and is in pre-production on the film Kuru, the second movie by the production company The Enemy
The Enemy (film company)
The Enemy is a film production company run by writer/director John Harlacher and editor Dave Buchwald. They have released their first film, Urchin, and are in production on their second film Kuru.-External links:***...
.
He currently resides in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York.
External links
- Official site for Urchin (film)Urchin (film)Urchin is a 2007 film about a homeless boy living in a New York City underground mole people community called Scum-City.-Plot:This is the story of a child who lives in Scum City. When the Old Man came to Scum City, a homeless camp in the Manhattan tunnels, his story seemed wild...
- Profile in Forbes Magazine
- Love Simple website
- Official site for the Enlightenment Pill