User:Curlessb

Brandon Curless is an American IT Professional, born in Janesville, WI on 6 August 1986.

Timeline

 * Was introduced to the world of computing in 1997 by his brother Ryan Curless by watching him play a video game called Jedi Knight online over a 56k modem.


 * That same year, he hacked into seven remote workstations using a trojan horse called NetBus. He obtained IP address information from his victims through direct connections in AOL Instant Messanger and sent the virus in Microsoft Chat and IRC clients.


 * In 1999, Curless developed a program called 'PPS' that stood for Personal Profiling System for AOL Instant Messanger. This program modified a user's profile code to create separate profiles for each person viewing their information. Users could set up more personal data when particular users loaded their information.


 * In 2004, he modified code for the homepage of then thefacebook, and now formally known as Facebook to allow for auto login capability. He later created a video as a guide to recreate it and put it out on the Internet. Many viewers felt the instructions were for malicious acts but Curless responded saying "...programmers will understand that it does exactly what it says it does. If you don't understand, then you should probably not use this program...".


 * Curless and co-classmates/coworkers developed a program called the Real Time Maintenance Application, (RTMA) during their time spent at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater, (2004-2009) that facilitated their work. As computer administrators they were able to manage all computers at the University using that program "...without having to leave the office". RTMA was written in Java and was later to be made into a commercial application through a company called Digital Evolved, but development failed after many meetings when the group left college.


 * In 2009 Curless developed a program called 'CopyFiles', (written in Java), that copied a selected file to an entire tree of directories. He created it for a teacher that was spending a lot of time manually doing the same operation.


 * In 2011, he tweaked code from previous programs to develop a Wake-On-Lan program, (in Java), that allows the user to create groups and computers in a multi-selectable list to send WOL packets.

Brandon Curless