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Contest Winner and Book Availability

All:
First, let me remind all of you that the official web site and blog for our “Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking” book is alive and well! So, go to http://wrt54ghacks.com right now for up-to-date information, behind the scenes pictures, WRT54G Hacking Links, and more! We are very excited to have completed the book, and even more excited to continue to provide information on embedded device hacking via the http://wrt54ghacks.com web site and blog.
First order of business, our book is shipping! W00t! You can purchase it via Amazon by clicking here.
Next, we have a winner of our book contest! The contest was to be the first person to send us a picture of themselves with the book. Doing so would win you (Compliments of the Security Weekly Crew):

And the winner is……Dave! Who submitted a wonderful picture of himself holding the book and two WRT54G routers (whoops, don’t drop one :).

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Congrats Dave!
Stay tuned, good things coming…
Paul Asadoorian

Paul Asadoorian

Paul Asadoorian is currently the Principal Security Evangelist for Eclypsium, focused on firmware and supply chain security awareness. Paul’s passion for firmware security extends back many years to the WRT54G hacking days and reverse engineering firmware on IoT devices for fun. Paul and his long-time podcast co-host Larry Pesce co-authored the book “WRTG54G Ultimate Hacking” in 2007, which fueled the firmware hacking fire even more.

Paul has worked in technology and information security for over 20 years, holding various security and engineering roles in a lottery company, university, ISP, independent penetration tester, and security product companies such as Tenable.
In 2005 Paul founded Security Weekly, a weekly podcast dedicated to hacking and information security. Paul grew Security Weekly into a network of security podcasts spanning multiple topics, such as application security and business. It has been estimated that Paul has conducted over 1,000 interviews with security professionals and hosted more than 1,000 podcast episodes in cybersecurity. In 2020 Security Weekly was acquired by the Cyberrisk Alliance.

Paul is still the host of one of the longest-running security podcasts, Paul’s Security Weekly, he enjoys coding in Python, telling everyone he uses Linux as his daily driver, poking at the supply chain, and reading about UEFI and other firmware-related technical topics.

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