Phil Lapsley

{{Short description|American engineer, hacker, author and entrepreneur (born 1965)}} '''Philip D. Lapsley''' (born 1965) is an American [[electrical engineer]], [[Hacker (computer security)|hacker]], author, and [[entrepreneur]].

== Early life == Lapsley attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]], in the 1980s, graduating with a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1988 and 1991. While there, he became involved in the [[Berkeley Software Distribution|Berkeley UNIX project]] and co-founded the [[eXperimental Computing Facility]], where he was involved in defending against the [[Morris worm]] in 1988.

Lapsley received an [[M.B.A.]] from the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]].

== Career == Lapsley co-authored RFC 977, Network News Transfer Protocol ([[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]]),<ref>Network News Transfer Protocol: A Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News, Request for Comments 977, [[Brian Kantor]] and Phil Lapsley, February 1986</ref> an Internet standard for transmission of [[USENET]] news articles, and was the primary developer of the NNTP reference implementation, nntpd. After leaving, Berkeley he co-founded Berkeley Design Technology, Inc., a [[digital signal processing]] technology advisory firm, and is the author of a book on DSP processors.<ref>DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features (IEEE Press Series on Signal Processing), Phil Lapsley, Jeff Bier, Amit Shoham, and [[Edward A. Lee]], IEEE-Wiley, February 1997, {{ISBN|978-0-7803-3405-2}}</ref> He later co-founded SmartTouch, a [[biometric]] financial transaction processing company.

Lapsley worked at [[McKinsey & Company]] as a [[management consulting|management consultant]] until 2008.

His book ''Exploding the Phone'', on the history of phone [[phreaking]], was published by [[Grove Atlantic|Grove/Atlantic]] in February, 2013.<ref>[http://explodingthephone.com Exploding the Phone website]</ref>

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