Eric Corley
Eric Gordon Corley ( born December 16, 1959 in Suffolk County) is an American hacker. It has given the pseudonym Emmanuel Goldstein, after the leader of the underground in George Orwell's classic 1984, he and his company 2600 Enterprises give the magazine since 1984 2600:. The Hacker Quarterly out.
Life
Late 70s Corley attended college Stony Brook University in New York State. During this time he explored remote access from remote computer systems and got into an investigation of the FBI, which conducted a Hausdurchung.
Eric Corley currently lives on Long Iceland near New York.
2600 Enterprises
In 1984, Corley non-commercial company 2600 Enterprises, Inc., with which he makes the 2600 magazine. The company and the magazine are named after the 2600 Hz signal frequency, which was used in the 1960s for control of telephone networks. (see also Blue Box ( phreaking ) )
Since 1994, sponsored and organized Enterprises 2600 HOPE Conference, an event with lectures on hacking topics, which takes place every 2 years in New York.
2600 Enterprises also organizes hacker clubs, eg 2600 meetings, which take place every Friday internationally in different cities.
DeCSS
After Corley had published in a journal article and at 2600 Website of the DeCSS source code in 1999, he was sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the film industry and was involved in another trial ( Universal City Studios, Inc. vs. Corley, Universal City Studios, Inc. vs.. Reimerdes ). DeCSS is a program that allows Linux users to watch DVDs on their computers. Both methods were chosen for the film industry.
In the controversial verdict against Corley, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan in 2600 the magazine as follows:
" 2600: The Hacker Quarterly publishes articles on topics how to steal internet domain name, you secure ASP source code writes, gets access to emails of other people that will secure your Linux box, cell phone calls, listening, Linux on the XBOX, spyware removed and in the computer systems of Costco stores and Federal Express breaks. One edition includes a guide of the federal criminal court system for readers who were accused of computer hacking. In addition, in 2600 operates a website on http://www.2600.com which is mainly operated by Mr. Corley since the start of 1995. "
Film
Published in 2001, Corley documentation Freedom Downtime, which he wrote, produced and in which he has directed. It discusses, among others, to the convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick and the "Free Kevin " movement ( Freed Kevin ).
Expert
1993 Corley said of as an expert before the U.S. Congress.
In 1995 he was a consultant for the content, the movie Hackers - In the power of the FBI. The makers gave one of the characters the name Emmanuel Goldstein.
Republican National Convention
He was arrested on 31 August 2004 in New York City, as he tried to film a demonstration against the Republican Party. After he was detained for more than 30 hours, he was charged with disorderly conduct. At the hearing on 29 November 2004, the city dropped the charges against him.
Journalist
During his studies, Corley worked as a moderator in a campus radio.
He founded in 1988 the radio show Off the Hook, a one- hour discussion groups format, which on the non-commercial radio station WBAI is on the air since every week. Topics include hacking, hacker culture, computer security and civil rights.
He is also the presenter of Off the Wall on the radio station WUSB ( a successor of his mission Brain Damage ).
As part of his work as a journalist, he visited Cuba, North Korea and Belarus.