W00w00

w00w00 (pronounced whoo-whoo) was a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and active until the early 2000s. Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies, including WhatsApp and Napster.

Participants
The group at one point included over 30 active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.

The following is a list of some of w00w00's participants: • Christopher Abad

• Josha Bronson - Director of Security at Yammer

• Silvio Cesare

• Matt Conover - the founder of the group

• Michael A. Davis - CTO of CounterTack

• Mark Dowd - co-founder Azimuth Security

• Joshua J. Drake - from Accuvant Labs

• Shawn Fanning

• Simon Roses Femerling - formerly at Microsoft Research

• Jeff Forristal - one of the first people to document SQL injections

• Michael J. Freeman

• Jonathan Katz

• Jan Koum

• Ralph Logan

• Matt Ploessel

• Gordon Lyon

• Brian Martin

• David McKay - an early employee at Google and AdMob

• Seth McGann

• David Munson

• Tim Newsham

• Anthony Eufemio (tymat) - co-founder of Digix and an early Ethereum pioneer (made the first transaction on the Ethereum network and cpp-ethereum contributor)

• Ejovi Nuwere

• Adam O’Donnell - co-founder of Immunet

• Sean Parker

• Alexander Peslyak

• Niels Provos

• Andrew Reiter - a researcher at Veracode

• Michael Ridpath

• Jordan Ritter

• Dragos Ruiu

• Tim Scanlon

• Dug Song - co-founder of Duo Security and Arbor Networks

• Tim Yardley - researcher in critical infrastructure security

• Anthony Zboralski

Notable companies
A number of well known companies have been established by its participants.


 * Arbor Networks
 * Napster
 * nmap
 * WhatsApp