About Me

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History

• November 1983: Born in Harstad, Norway to a Polish mother and Norwegian father
• December 1983: First encounter with a home computer: father’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum (picture above is from 1986)
• 1998: Installed GNU/Linux for the first time: RedHat 5.0 (still have the CD)
• September - October 1999: Co-authored DeCSS with two European programmers
• January 2000: Received the Karoline award, which is awarded to high school students who have excellent grades and who have achieved something noteworthy in the arena of sports, art or culture
• June 2000: Quit high school after completing the first year with an average grade of 5.75 (best achievable grade being 6)
• January 2001: Reverse engineered the jazPiper Win2000 device driver and authored a jazPiper Linux driver
• April 2002: Accepted an EFF Pioneer Award which was awarded to the entire DeCSS team
• November 2003: Authored QTFairUse, an AAC memory dumper patch for Apple QuickTime
• December 2003 - January 2004: Reverse engineered Apple FairPlay v1 and authored an open source C implementation of FairPlay. The implementation found its way into several tools (m4p2mp4, playfair and hymn) and was most likely studied by RealNetworks to add FairPlay support to Harmony.
• May 2004: Reverse engineered FairPlay v2 and updated the open source C implementation
• April 2004: Authored DeDRMS, an open source C# implementation of FairPlay
• July 2004: Reverse engineered the iTunes Music Store protocol for downloading FairPlay user keys and authored FairKeys
• August 2004: Reverse engineered the Apple AirTunes protocol and authored JustePort
• March 2005: Co-authored PyMusique (an open source iTMS shopping client) with two American programmers
• March 2005: Reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 protocol and updated PyMusique after Apple disabled support for older versions of the protocol in an attempt to shut out PyMusique
• March 2005: Authored SharpMusique (a C# port of PyMusique) at the request of Miguel de Icaza
• April 2005: Combined DeDRMS and FairKeys into JusteTune
• August 2005: Reverse engineered the encoding used in Microsoft’s NSC format and authored a decoder
• October 2005: Moved to San Diego, USA
• June 2006: Moved to San Francisco and joined DoubleTwist Ventures.
• November 2006: Moved to Norway.

Favourite

• Movies
  • Léon (1994)
  • The Fifth Element (1997)
  • Le Pacte des loups (2001)
  • The Mission (1986)
  • The Party (1968)
• Music
  • Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
  • Jean Michel Jarre
  • The Crystal Method
  • Blackeyed Peas
  • Basement Jaxx
  • The Prodigy
• Gadgets
  • ThinkPad T42p
• Operating Systems
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • Windows XP