W00w00

w00w00 is a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s.[1][2] Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen IT companies. The two most famous examples are WhatsApp, the messaging service, and Napster, the pioneering file-sharing company.[3][4]

Participants

The official website, explicitly states "there are no 'members'" only participants, which at one point included 30+ active participants and spanned 12 countries on five continents.[1][3][5]

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