Christien Rioux, also known by his handle DilDog, is the co-founder and chief scientist for the

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based company

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, for which he is the main patent holder. Educated at MIT, Rioux was a computer security researcher at L0pht Heavy Industries and then at the company

@stake ATstake, Inc. was a computer security professional services company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1999 by Battery Ventures (Tom Crotty, Sunil Dhaliwal, and Scott Tobin) and Ted Julian. Its initial core team of techno ...

(later bought by Symantec). While at @stake, he looked for security weaknesses in software and led the development of Smart Risk Analyzer (SRA). He co-authored the best-selling Windows password auditing tool @stake LC (

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) and the AntiSniff network intrusion detection system. He is also a member of

Cult of the Dead Cow Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site, also titled "Cult of the Dead Cow". New media are relea ...

and its

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. Formerly, he was a member of

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. DilDog is best known as the author of the original code for

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, an open source

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tool. He is also well known as the author of "The Tao of Windows Buffer Overflow."Park, Yong-Joon and Gyungho Lee,
Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection
" ''Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers'',

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, 2004. Retrieved April 17, 2007.

References

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