HERT interviews Kismet's author, Mike Kershaw
What is your background?
I've been running Linux for about 10 years now, and programming since I was a wee larva on a TI-99a console.
What do you do for living?
My non-wireless alter ego gets paid for doing work with big iron - IBM mainframes and large numbers of virtual servers.
What were you working on before you started kismet?
Nothing of any great notice -- I've always had a continual slow trickle of code for various projects, bugfixing other software I use, etc. Kismet was my first public project that really caught on.
I guess you probably consider yourself a hacker.
Define hacking? My preference is the old-school definition - if you mean digging into things, figuring out how they work, and having fun learning, of course!
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