Hector Martin Cantero (born September 9, 1990), also known as marcan, is a

security hacker A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, challenge ...

known for hacking multiple

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generations, the

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and other devices. Martin is lead developer on the

Asahi Linux Asahi Linux is a porting project to develop support for Linux on Apple devices, Linux on Apple hardware, specifically Apple silicon-powered Macintosh , Macs, allowing them to run alternative operating systems in addition to macOS. The software d ...

project.

Biography

Education

Martin went to the American School of Bilbao (Spain), where he received his primary and secondary education.

Career

Since 2011, he has been an official staff volunteer at Euskal Encounter, Gipuzkoa Encounter and Araba Encounter

LAN parties A LAN party is a gathering of people with personal computers or compatible game consoles, where a local area network (LAN) connection is established between the devices using a router or switch, primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer ...

. He is the coordinator of the

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area, where he organizes the "Hack It / Solve It" competition (a cybersecurity challenge known as

capture the flag Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two or more teams each have a flag (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it safely back to their own base. ...

) and the "AI Contest" competition. He has been part of Team Twiizers, where he was responsible for

reverse engineering Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accompli ...

and hacking the

. He was the first to write an open source driver for the

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by reverse engineering for which he was widely credited. Sony sued him and others for hacking the PlayStation 3; the case was eventually settled out of court. In 2016, he ported

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

to the

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and demonstrated that at the 33rd

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by running

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inside Linux. He wrote the usbmuxd tool for synchronizing data from iPhones to Linux computers. In 2021, Martin founded the

project, an effort to

port A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Ham ...

Linux to the new

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-powered Macs. He currently remains the lead developer on the project. While reverse engineering Apple's hardware, Martin discovered the " M1racles" security vulnerability on the

Apple M1 Apple M1 is a series of ARM architecture, ARM-based system-on-a-chip, systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) Apple silicon, designed by Apple Inc. as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Mac (computer), Mac desktop compu ...

processor.

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Hector Martin's YouTube
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Biography

Education

Career

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