Ben Laurie is an English software engineer. He is currently the Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting.
Laurie wrote Apache-SSL, the basis of most
SSL-enabled versions of the
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server ( ) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache So ...
. He developed the
MUD
A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Time-keeping systems in games#Real-time, real-time virtual world, usually Text-based game, text-bas ...
''Gods'', which was innovative in including
online creation
User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is any form of content, such as images, videos, text, testimonials, and audio, that has been posted by users on online platforms such as social media, discussion f ...
in its endgame.
Laurie also has written several articles, papers and books,
and is interested in
ideal knots and their applications.
Laurie was a member of
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks () is an international Nonprofit organization, non-profit organisation that published news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous Source (journalism), sources. Julian Assange, an Australian Internet activism, Internet acti ...
' Advisory Board. According to Laurie, he had little involvement with WikiLeaks, and didn't know who ran the site other than
Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army inte ...
. In 2009, he also said he wouldn't trust WikiLeaks to protect him if he were a whistleblower because "the things that Wikileaks relies on are not sufficiently strong to defend against" a government's resources.
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Computer security specialists
Cypherpunks
Google employees
MUD developers
Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
Place of birth missing (living people)
WikiLeaks
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people