David "bernz" Bernick has been active in Boston's 2600 scene for many years. Currently Bernz is the Senior Engineer at Legal Computer Solutions, a company that provides a secure document repository center for large (1,000,000 pieces of evidence) legal cases (criminal and civil). Part of the work also includes sometimes cracking documents, passwords, and zip files for which there are no keys or decrypted copies, hence the software you'll see presented at the conference. Long ago in his youth, bernz wrote an article for 2600 Magazine on the topic of social engineering. Bernz grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it.